The Illusion of Animal Body Ownership and Its Potential for Virtual Reality Games

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作者：

Krekhov, Andrey ^{[1
]}

Cmentowski, Sebastian ^{[1
]}

Krueger, Jens ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Duisburg Essen, Ctr Visual Data Anal & Comp Graph COVIDAG, Duisburg, Germany

来源：

2019 IEEE CONFERENCE ON GAMES (COG) | 2019年

关键词：

virtual reality; animal avatars; embodiment; SELF; TOUCH;

D O I：

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中图分类号：

TP18 [人工智能理论];

学科分类号：

081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;

摘要：

Virtual reality offers the unique possibility to experience a virtual representation as our own body. In contrast to previous research that predominantly studied this phenomenon for humanoid avatars, our work focuses on virtual animals. In this paper, we discuss different body tracking approaches to control creatures such as spiders or bats and the respective virtual body ownership effects. Our empirical results demonstrate that virtual body ownership is also applicable for nonhumanoids and can even outperform human-like avatars in certain cases. An additional survey confirms the general interest of people in creating such experiences and allows us to initiate a broad discussion regarding the applicability of animal embodiment for educational and entertainment purposes.

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