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Display technologies in the fields of virtual and augmented reality affect the appearance of human representations, such as avatars used in telepresence or entertainment applications, based on the user’s current viewing conditions. With changing viewing conditions, it is possible that the perceived appearance of one’s avatar changes in an unexpected or undesired manner, which may change user behavior towards these avatars and cause frustration in using the AR display. In this paper, we describe a user study (N=20) where participants saw themselves in a mirror standing next to their own avatar through use of a HoloLens 2 optical see-through head-mounted display. Participants were tasked to match their avatar’s appearance to their own under two environment lighting conditions (200 lux and 2,000 lux). Our results showed that the intensity of environment lighting had a significant effect on participants selected skin colors for their avatars, where participants with dark skin colors tended to make their avatar’s skin color lighter, nearly to the level of participants with light skin color. Further, in particular female participants made their avatar’s hair color darker for the lighter environment lighting condition. We discuss our results with a view on technological limitations and effects on the diversity of avatar representations on optical see-through displays.
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Keynote: Mastering Light: Reproduction, Reality, and Augmentation
As we gather in the City of Light, consider that everything visible is light. We, color and imaging scientists and practitioners, are masters of light, reproducing light through imaging, creating and utilizing light in our real environment, and augmenting our illuminated reality with advanced displays and optics. Imaging, a core topic of CIC, is about the reproduction of light, which is foremost a question of tone and color reproduction, and we develop and master technologies from reflective pigments to emissive displays. Reality itself is rendered and sensed with light, and as we choose to light our environment with LED illumination, color rendition is a central question for visual quality. Reality and imaging converge in augmented reality – AR – which can insert interactive imagery into our illuminated world. In AR, this mix of real and augmented reveals important questions about adaptation and color perception. Mastering light in real and augmented reality incorporates the newest, evolving technologies, while we rely on the foundations of our predecessors: both the intuitive artists whose paintings we still admire, and the rational scientists whose findings we still trust.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1942755
- PAR ID:
- 10515527
- Editor(s):
- Vázquez_Corral, Javier; Payne, Carol
- Publisher / Repository:
- IS&T 31st Color and Imaging Conference
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- IS&T 31st Color and Imaging Conference
- ISSN:
- 2169-2629
- ISBN:
- 978-0-89208-364-0
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Paris, France
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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