EntangleVR++: evaluating the potential of using entanglement in an interactive VR scene creation system

Bibliographic Details
Title: EntangleVR++: evaluating the potential of using entanglement in an interactive VR scene creation system
Authors: Mengyu Chen, Marko Peljhan, Misha Sra
Source: Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Vol 4 (2023)
Publisher Information: Frontiers Media S.A., 2023.
Publication Year: 2023
Collection: LCC:Electronic computers. Computer science
Subject Terms: virtual reality, quantum computing, entanglement, visual programming, art, creativity, Electronic computers. Computer science, QA75.5-76.95
More Details: Interactive digital stories provide a sense of flexibility and freedom to players by allowing them to make choices at key junctions. These choices advance the narrative and determine, to some degree, how the story evolves for that player. As shown in prior work, the ability to control or participate in the construction of the narrative can give the player a high level of agency that results in a stronger sense of immersion in the narrative experience. To support the design of this type of interactive storytelling, our system, EntangleVR++, borrows the idea of entanglement from quantum computing. Our use of entanglement allows creators and storytellers control over which sequences of story events take place in correlation with each other, initiated by the choices a player makes. In this work, we evaluated how well our idea of entanglement enables creators to easily and quickly design interactive Virtual reality narratives. We asked 16 participants to use our system and based on user interviews, analyses of screen recordings, and questionnaire feedback, we extracted four themes. From these themes and the study overall, we derived four authoring strategies for tool designers interested in the design of future visual interface for interactively creating virtual scenes that include relational objects and multiple outcomes driven by player interactions.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 2673-4192
Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2023.1252551/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2673-4192
DOI: 10.3389/frvir.2023.1252551
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/02c44b04bdb54b2abf335aaa4de00392
Accession Number: edsdoj.02c44b04bdb54b2abf335aaa4de00392
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
More Details
ISSN:26734192
DOI:10.3389/frvir.2023.1252551
Published in:Frontiers in Virtual Reality
Language:English