Jason Jerald has been working in virtual reality for 20 years now, and he’s celebrating his 20th VR anniversary with the launch of an epic textbook called: The VR Book: Perception and Interaction Design for Virtual Reality. It’s nearly 500 pages and contains over 300 academic references covering the psychological and technical considerations for creating a comfortable VR experience.
The VR Book focuses on human elements of VR, such as how users perceive and intuitively interact with various forms of reality, causes of VR sickness, creating useful and pleasing content, and how to design and iterate upon effective VR applications. It is not just for VR designers; it is for the entire team, as they all should understand the basics of perception, VR sickness, interaction, content creation, and iterative design.
In this interview, Jason gives an overview of some of the chapters and sections that are covered in the book including perception, how to minimize adverse health effects, creating VR content, a list of interaction patterns, iterative design strategies, and where VR is headed.
We talk a bit more about the importance of fidelity in VR experiences, the virtual body ownership illusion, and how he thinks about the different fundamental components of presence.
The VR Book will be launching on August 9th at SIGGRAPH next week, and will eventually be available online for purchase here. It’s not available for online purchase yet, but you can sign up to Jason’s e-mail list to get informed as to when the book becomes available. It’s sure to be a vital collection of all the latest research for what is known and not known about creating comfortable and compelling VR experiences.
If you’re going to be at SIGGRAPH next week, then check out Jason’s VR Book presentation on Monday, August 10 at 4:00pm in the Immersion Dome at the VR Village (South Hall G). He’ll also be signing books on Monday, August 10th at 5:15pm at the SIGGRAPH bookstore where hard copies will be available for purchase.
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