On the Perception of Frame Stalls in Remote VR for Task and Task-Free Subjective Tests

• Main Authors: Chinh Chu, Thi My, Fiedler, Markus, Kelkkanen, Viktor, Lindero, David, Zepernick, Hans-Jurgen
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Communication channels; Quality of experience; Task analysis
• ISSN: 2472-7814
• DOI: 10.1109/QoMEX58391.2023.10178492

The performance of remotely rendered Virtual Re-ality (VR) is sensitive to temporal disturbances in communication channels. An earlier Quality of Experience (QoE) study of tem-poral impacts in the form of frame stalls has revealed difficulties with subjective disturbance ratings while performing a task in an interactive 6-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) VR environment. This study follows up on above observation by comparing QoE ratings in the presence and absence of a task. The exploratory findings show that the task-free subjective tests yield lower ratings compared to the subjective tests with task. This indicates that the participants became more sensitive to temporal impairments in the absence of a task. Also, the positive impact of reprojection on the QoE ratings decreased in the task-free environment. The simulator sickness results for individual symptoms were on similar low levels in both settings. The total score (TS) of sickness severity was higher after than before the subjective tests with task while the difference between the TS before and after the task-free subjective tests was insignificant,