Impact of HRTF Individualization on Player Performance in a VR Shooter Game I

Poirier-Quinot D, Katz BFG. Impact of HRTF Individualization on Player Performance in a VR Shooter Game I. In: AES Conference: 2018 AES International Conference on Spatial Reproduction - Aesthetics and Science. Audio Engineering Society; 2018. Paper P5-4. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19618

@inproceedings{PoirierQuinot2018_19618,
  author = {Poirier-Quinot, David and Katz, Brian F. G.},
  title = {{Impact of HRTF Individualization on Player Performance in a VR Shooter Game I}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: 2018 AES International Conference on Spatial Reproduction - Aesthetics and Science},
  note = {Paper P5-4},
  year = {2018},
  month = jul,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19618}
}

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AB  - We present preliminary results of an experiment to assess the impact of individualized binaural rendering on player performance in the context of a VR “shooter game”, as part of a larger project to characterize the impact of binaural rendering quality in various VR applications. Participants played a game in which they were faced with successive enemy targets approaching from random directions on a sphere. Audio-visual cues allowed for target localization. Participants were equipped with an Oculus CV1-HMD, headphones, and two Oculus Touch hand tracked devices as targeting mechanisms. Participants performed two sessions, once using their best and once their worst-match HRTFs from a “perceptually orthogonal” optimized set of 7 HRTFs [1]. Results indicate signi?cant performance improvement (speed and movement ef?ciency) with best-match HRTF binaural rendering sessions.
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