Yoga in Virtual Reality Increases Experience of Presence but May Be Less Satisfying, More Difficult, and More Nausea-Unbalance Inducing.

Q3 Medicine
Paul Frewen, Helena Amyot, Cassandra Ellis
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Abstract

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, yoga classes have increasingly been delivered in virtual formats via online videoconferencing. Virtual reality (VR) guided meditations have been found to be a satisfactory means of teaching meditation, but satisfaction with practicing yoga in VR has not been researched. The present study evaluated whether participants experience a greater sense of presence and satisfaction with yoga instruction provided through 360-degree videos when the videos are viewed in three dimensions through a VR headset compared to a standard two-dimensional display. Forty female undergraduate students first participated in a brief in-person yoga class, then two classes of equivalent length that were prerecorded 360-degree videos; all lessons took place during a single 1-hour session. One of the videos was viewed by 3D VR headset, and the other was viewed on a standard 2D laptop, with viewing order randomized across participants. After each of the three yoga classes, a questionnaire assessing spatial, interpersonal, and temporal presence; satisfaction; nausea-unbalance; and difficulty was administered. Split-plot repeated-measures multivariate analysis of variance revealed a significant main effect of delivery format, whereas the main effect for order of the virtual delivery formats and the interaction between the order and format were both nonsignificant. Follow-up univariate analyses revealed that the in-person yoga classes were associated with the greatest satisfaction and sense of presence compared to the two virtual delivery formats. Although the yoga instruction viewed through 3D VR headset was associated with a higher sense of presence than the 2D laptop viewing condition, it was also associated with more nausea-unbalance and difficulty and overall lower satisfaction.

虚拟现实中的瑜伽增加了在场的体验,但可能不那么令人满意,更困难,更容易引起恶心和不平衡。
由于2019冠状病毒病大流行,越来越多的瑜伽课程通过在线视频会议以虚拟形式授课。虚拟现实(VR)引导冥想被发现是一种令人满意的冥想教学手段,但在VR中练习瑜伽的满意度尚未得到研究。目前的研究评估了参与者在360度视频中是否体验到更大的存在感和满意度,当视频通过VR头显以三维方式观看时,与标准的二维显示相比。40名女本科生首先参加了一节简短的面对面瑜伽课,然后是两节同样长度的课,都是预先录制的360度视频;所有的课程都在一个1小时的会议中进行。其中一段视频是通过3D VR耳机观看的,另一段视频是在标准的2D笔记本电脑上观看的,观看顺序是随机的。每堂瑜伽课后,都有一份评估空间、人际关系和时间存在的问卷;满意度;nausea-unbalance;难度是可以控制的。分裂图重复测量多变量方差分析显示,交付格式的主效应显著,而虚拟交付格式的顺序和顺序与格式之间的交互作用的主效应均不显著。后续单变量分析显示,与两种虚拟授课形式相比,面对面的瑜伽课程与最大的满足感和存在感相关。虽然通过3D VR头戴式耳机观看的瑜伽指导比2D笔记本电脑观看的瑜伽指导具有更高的存在感,但它也与更多的恶心-不平衡和难度以及总体满意度较低相关。
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