Towards Enhancing a Recorded Concert Experience in Virtual Reality by Visualizing the Physiological Data of the Audience

This work is a first attempt to visualize the social atmosphere of a audience in a VR experience using their recorded the physiological state, and then presents them to another group of audience members, aiming at a transformative perception from individual to collective experience. A virtual environment is built to share the audience's aesthetic feelings and emotions, creating a novel way of non-verbal communication in performance scenarios that aim at enhancing audio-visual perception through physiological sensing and emotional experience sharing. This experiment was designed to investigate the effect of physiological data-based reproduction of musical performances in VR on affective states.