Excite-O-Meter: an Open-Source Unity Plugin to Analyze Heart Activity and Movement Trajectories in Custom VR Environments

Abstract

This article explains the new features of the Excite-O-Meter, an open-source tool that enables the collection of bodily data, real-time feature extraction, and post-session data visualization in any custom VR environment developed in Unity. Besides analyzing heart activity, the tool supports now multidimensional time series to study motion trajectories in VR. The paper presents the main functionalities and discusses the relevance of the tool for behavioral and psychophysiological research.