VRJam

Good vir­tu­al real­ity cre­ates a sense of pres­ence — the feel­ing of really being in the vir­tu­al world. But what causes pres­ence to hap­pen? We know that cer­tain fea­tures of a vir­tu­al envir­on­ment help gen­er­ate pres­ence, but oth­er fea­tures can hamper or break it entirely.

This applic­a­tion is an applic­a­tion that mem­bers of the pub­lic can take part in. Soon avail­able for Google Card­board for iOS and Android. An early ver­sion was a sub­mis­sion to the VRJam 2015 for Gear­VR.

We have designed this immers­ive exper­i­ence to be com­pel­ling and enga­ging — but we also hope to gath­er data from it; we want to make a very large scale pres­ence exper­i­ment. We will make pub­lic our find­ings on what worked well in this exper­i­ence.

If you want to test Pres­ence Exper­i­ment:

• Please install the cor­rect app for your device:
  • iOS Google Card­board
  • Android Google Card­board
  • Sam­sung Gear VR (Note 4 and S6) is avail­able via Side­Load­VR. (An early ver­sion for Note 4 can be for here. Unfor­tu­nately this build does not work on S6, and we can­not sign new­er work­ing builds, so please use Side­Load­VR if you can).
• Please read the Inform­a­tion for Par­ti­cipants
• Please read the Con­sent Form

Note that you don’t have to agree to data col­lec­tion if you don’t want, you can just run the demon­stra­tion.

If you are going to set up your device to show oth­er people the demon­stra­tion please read Inform­a­tion for Exper­i­ment Run­ners.

If after tak­ing part in the exper­i­ment, you decide you would like your data deleted, please see Data Dele­tion.

If you have have tried the Pres­ence Exper­i­ment already, or want to learn more about the pur­pose of the exper­i­ment please see

• Hypo­theses and Motiv­a­tion of Pres­ence Exper­i­ment
• Res­ults from Pres­ence Exper­i­ment (avail­able from sum­mer 2015 onwards)

Please do not read these pages if you intend to take part in the study at a future point.