What is it about?
We conducted an experiment to investigate how different types of perspective (viewing and listening) affect two outcomes in virtual reality: embodiment and embodied mindfulness. Our results suggest that participants experienced a greater shift in the perception of their own bodies in a visual first-person perspective than in third-person and we did not find any significant effects of a shift in listening perspective.
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Why is it important?
The use of different perspectives in virtual reality is underutilised and, to the best of our knowledge, ours is the first study to experimentally investigate a shift in listening perspective in virtual reality. Understanding how different perspectives can be used and how they affect users is crucial in fully utilising virtual reality as a tool for investigating phenomena such as embodiment and mindfulness.
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This page is a summary of: Embodiment in virtual reality: an experiment on how visual and aural First- and Third-person modes affect embodiment and mindfulness, Virtual Reality, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10055-025-01129-w.
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