'Real-time' virtual reality and the limits of immersion
'Real-time' virtual reality and the limits of immersion
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“实时”虚拟现实和沉浸感的局限性
作者：
Misek R
虚拟现实最擅长做什么？从其在建筑可视化、手术训练、犯罪现场重建、军事模拟以及游戏等领域的快速发展来看，虚拟现实（VR）已被证明是重建和模拟物理空间以及实现触觉参与的特别有效的工具。虚拟现实最常见的描述是“沉浸式”，这个术语突出了它的空间和体验维度。Jay大卫·博尔特（英语：Jay Bolter）和理查德·格鲁辛（英语：Richard Grusin）在1999年的文章中总结了当时流行的观点如下：虚拟现实是沉浸式的，这意味着它是一种媒介，其目的是消失[...]正如计算机科学家自己所说，[…]观看者应该忘记她实际上正佩戴着计算机接口，并且接受它提供的图形图像作为她自己的视觉世界。1 Bolter和Grusin广泛引用了这一时期的专业和学术文献，强调了空间世界构建已经在多大程度上支撑了关于第一代基于耳机的体验最好的假设。20多年过去了，情况依然如此。这方面的原型是游戏，目前最流行的VR消费应用。在2018年Steam商店上最畅销的12款VR游戏中，有6款是第一人称射击游戏，3款是第一人称奇幻冒险游戏，这些游戏类型结合了联合收割机环境和建筑可视化，战场模拟以及最重要的空间探索。在杀死对手的同时，每一个人的目标都是
What does virtual reality do best? Judging by its rapid uptake in fields including architectural visualization, surgical training, crime scene reconstruction, military simulation and, of course, gaming, virtual reality (VR) has proved to be a particularly effective tool for reconstructing and simulating physical spaces, as well as enabling a haptic engagement with them. It is telling that the most common descriptor for virtual reality is ‘immersive’, a term that highlights its spatial and experiential dimension. Writing in 1999, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin summarized the then prevailing view as follows: virtual reality is immersive, which means that it is a medium whose purpose is to disappear [...] As computer scientists themselves put it [...] the viewer should forget that she is in fact wearing a computer interface and accept the graphic image that it offers as her own visual world. 1Bolter and Grusin’s extensive references to the professional and academic literature of the period highlight the degree to which spatial world-building was already underpinning assumptions about what the first generation of headset-based experiences did best. It remains so over 20 years later. Archetypal in this regard is gaming, currently the most popular VR consumer application. Of the 12 best-selling VR games on the 2018 Steam store, six were first-person shooter games and three were first-person fantasy adventures, genres that combine environmental and architectural visualization, battlefield simulation, and above all spatial exploration. In tandem with killing opponents, the goal of each of these