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Accommodation to virtual sound rendering in a reverberant room with 3DoF and 6DoF interaction

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This study investigates the perception of real (loudspeaker) and virtual (binaural rendering through headphones) sound sources in a reverberant room with 3DoF and 6DoF interaction. More specifically, the study looks at the effect of accommodation to the virtual audio rendering while carrying out a listening experiment aimed at evaluating the presence of real and virtual sources. The experiment contains three blocks of triplets organised as follows: the 10 first triplets always contained one real sound source, the next 25 triplets had only virtual sources, and the 10 last triplets had again one real sound source. The results show that most of the participants correctly identified the presence of the real sound source during the first block, and started to identify virtual sound sources as real ones in the second block, possibly indicating an accommodation to the virtual rendering. In the third block, participants correctly identified the presence of the real sound source again.

Source: Research Portal (King's College London)

Authors: Meyer, Julie; id_orcid 0000-0003-3063-6619, Picinali, Lorenzo

Institutions: Engineering (Italy), Imperial College London

Language: English

Topic: Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts

Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Imperial College London, European Commission

Awards: SONICOM - Transforming auditory-based social interaction and communication in AR/VR, G434337789

OpenAlex ID: W7113134422