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Year:: 2018
Contributor:: Hersko-RonaTas, Adam (Creator); Warren, William (advisor); Brown University (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: virtual reality; editing; cognition; spatiotemporal judgments
Extent:: 26 p.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/pc0z-yp97

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Abstract:: With the introduction of virtual reality a new question arises: When the viewer is no longer looking at a screen but rather at an immersive environment, how might edits – conceived in the context of cinema – carry over to this new medium? There are two schools of thought with regard to the perceptual influence of edits. The narrative editing principle maintains that narrative structure provides the source of continuity viewers perceive when watching an edited sequence of images, while the formal editing principle argues that the cuts themselves specify some form of information about the spatiotemporal relationship between two shots. Since VR provides the viewer with an added immersive/spatial element nonexistent in traditional movie-watching, the perception of space and time is expected to more closely resemble event perception. Using a novel experimental design, this study sought to examine the effects of seven basic edit types on participants’ judgments on distance travelled and time elapsed across a transition between two virtual environments in a head-mounted display. Participants reported felt changes in distance and time using magnitude estimation. The results demonstrated no significant effect of edit type on distance judgments; however, a marginally significant effect was found for time judgments. No correlation was found between the reported rankings of edits for distance and time judgments. These findings are consistent with both the narrative and formal editing principles since edits appear to specify some temporal information, while spatial information may be attributed to a higher-order narrative understanding of the images being presented.
Notes:: Senior thesis (ScB)--Brown University, 2018; Concentration: Cognitive Neuroscience

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Hersko-RonaTas, Adam, "VR Edits: The Influence of Transition Type on Spatiotemporal Judgments in Virtual Reality" (2018). Cognitive Sciences Theses and Dissertations, Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/pc0z-yp97

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VR Edits: The Influence of Transition Type on Spatiotemporal Judgments in Virtual Reality