Designing a VR Lobby for Remote Opera Social Experiences

Lee, Sueyoon; Striner, Alina; Cesar, Pablo

doi:10.1145/3505284.3532980

Designing a VR Lobby for Remote Opera Social Experiences

Title

Designing a VR Lobby for Remote Opera Social Experiences

Author

Lee, Sueyoon (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))
Striner, Alina (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))
Cesar, Pablo (TU Delft Multimedia Computing; Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))

Date

2022

Abstract

Several social VR platforms support virtual entertainment events, however their value for post-show activities remains unclear. Through a user-centered approach, we design a social VR lobby experience to enrich four motivations of theatre-goers: social, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual engagement. We ran a context-mapping focus group session with professionals (N=6) to conceptualize the social VR space for digital opera experiences. Based on our findings, we propose a social VR lobby consisting of four rooms: 1) a Bar for social engagement, 2) an Info Booth for intellectual engagement, 3) a Photo Zone for emotional engagement, and 4) an Interactive Stage for spiritual engagement. Based on this work, we plan to experimentally evaluate audience experiences in each room in order to create a social VR lobby template for theater experiences.

Subject

Opera
post-experience
social VR
virtual reality

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1145/3505284.3532980

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

ISBN

978-1-4503-9212-9

Source

IMX 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences