In our first initiative, the Immersive Design Pattern Study, VEIL seeks to investigate and document interaction design patterns throughout today's VR landscape as represented in 72 VR titles across 12 categories of use cases.
Each VEIL research pod comprises five evaluators who play through and document each VR title, and two analysts who summarize and catalog the results. Our custom-designed test cases are built to ensure each test session by individual researchers generates comparable data.
Our test platform, Qualtrics, enables dynamic logic and conditional questions, allowing highly differentiated titles to be explored in depth with a single evaluation form – further ensuring comparable data. We record our test sessions using OBS to provide consistent formatting of VR screen captures.
After capture and testing is complete, design patterns are identified and organized according to VEIL's proprietary Evaluation Framework. This custom evaluation framework, which was developed after months of study of existing VR interaction guidelines and iterative testing, allows titles to be characterized in terms of key VR metrics including usability, effectiveness, inclusivity, accessibility, and more.
When complete, the Immersive Design Pattern Study will result in one of the most comprehensive investigations of VR interaction to date.
VEIL is an international vanguard of immersive media experts committed to revealing the secrets of creating virtual worlds that are natural, intuitive, and accessible to all.
The team has a diverse range of skills, cultural perspectives, and life experiences. It evolved from a partnership between a practitioner and an academic researcher from opposite parts of the world and is organized around the free flow of ideas and open collaboration.
Featuring researchers from more than 15 countries across six continents, our experts have backgrounds ranging from user experience design to computer science, data science, entertainment, education, psychology, and entrepreneurship.
Driven by our collective passion for storytelling, design, and immersive technology, our shared objective is to learn as much as we can about the current VR landscape and build VEIL into a key resource for the XR industry.
If you are a VR developer or producer and would like your title to be included in our research, you may submit an application to become a content contributor. In exchange for granting our team access to your title, VEIL will:
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