Immersive In Situ Visualizations for Monitoring Architectural-Scale Multiuser MR Experiences

TL;DR

This paper introduces immersive in situ visualizations to enhance real-time monitoring of visitor engagement, device performance, and system events in large-scale multiuser mixed reality environments, improving experience quality.

Contribution

It presents a novel visualization approach for real-time system monitoring in co-located multiuser MR experiences, addressing a key challenge in managing large immersive environments.

Findings

Enhanced awareness of visitor engagement and system status

Improved management of large-scale MR experiences

Facilitated better decision-making during MR sessions

Abstract

Mixed reality (MR) environments provide great value in displaying 3D virtual content. Systems facilitating co-located multiuser MR (Co-MUMR) experiences allow multiple users to co-present in a shared immersive virtual environment with natural locomotion. They can be used to support a broad spectrum of applications such as immersive presentations, public exhibitions, psychological experiments, etc. However, based on our experiences in delivering Co-MUMR experiences in large architectures and our reflections, we noticed that the crucial challenge for hosts to ensure the quality of experience is their lack of insight into the real-time information regarding visitor engagement, device performance, and system events. This work facilitates the display of such information by introducing immersive in situ visualizations.