Using high-fidelity virtual reality to study perception in freely moving observers

Scarfe, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-6198 and Glennerster, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8674-2763 (2015) Using high-fidelity virtual reality to study perception in freely moving observers. Journal of Vision, 15 (9). pp. 1-11. ISSN 1534-7362 doi: 10.1167/15.9.3

Abstract/Summary

Technological innovations have had a profound influence on how we study the sensory perception in humans and other animals. One example was the introduction of affordable computers, which radically changed the nature of visual experiments. It is clear that vision research is now at cusp of a similar shift, this time driven by the use of commercially available, low-cost, high- fidelity virtual reality (VR). In this review we will focus on: (a) the research questions VR allows experimenters to address and why these research questions are important, (b) the things that need to be considered when using VR to study human perception, (c) the drawbacks of current VR systems, and (d) the future direction vision research may take, now that VR has become a viable research tool.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/40788
Identification Number/DOI	10.1167/15.9.3
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Psychology
Publisher	Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
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