Personal Space Evaluation and Protection in Social VR

Jiayi Sun, Wenli Jiang, Lutong Li, Chong Cao

Abstract: Social VR has been widely promoted and popularized in recent years. Due to the immersion characteristic of VR, although people do not have physical contact in the virtual space, they still have judgements on distance and may feel annoyed when their personal space is intruded. Social VR users want to communicate with their virtual friends in the space. Meanwhile, keep a comfortable distance from other avatars and protect their personal space. In this paper, we evaluate user’s perception and comfortable level of personal distance and compare four different methods to protect personal space in social VR.