Emotion Sharing and Augmentation in Cooperative Virtual Reality Games

PubDate: October 2018

Teams: University of South Australia

Writers: Jonathon D. Hart;Thammathip Piumsomboon;Louise Lawrence;Gun A. Lee;Ross T. Smith;Mark Billinghurst

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Abstract

We present preliminary findings from sharing and augmenting facial expression in cooperative social Virtual Reality (VR) games. We implemented a prototype system for capturing and sharing facial expression between VR players through their avatar. We describe our current prototype system and how it could be assimilated into a system for enhancing social VR experience. Two social VR games were created for a preliminary study. We discuss our findings from our pilots, potential games for this system, and future directions for this research.