“WizardOfVR: Emotion-Adaptive Virtual Wizard Experience” by Gupta, Zhang, Pai and Billinghurst
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- WizardOfVR: Emotion-Adaptive Virtual Wizard Experience
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We demonstrate WizardOfVR, a personalized emotion-adaptive virtual reality (VR) Wizard akin to the Harry Potter experience, highlighting a use-case scenario of a real-time biofeedback loop between the user’s emotional state and adaptive VR environments (VREs) using off-the-shelf physiological sensors. In our demo, the user initially trains the system with a calibration process using physiological signals such as Electroencephalogram (EEG), Electrodermal Activity (EDA), and Heart Rate Variability (HRV). After calibration, they will indulge in a Harry Potter Series’s Forbidden Forest-like experience with adapting environmental factors based on ‘SanityMeter’ indicating the user’s real-time emotional states. The overall goal of this demo is to provide more balanced, immersive, and optimal emotional virtual experiences.
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