The Benefit of a Regression in VR Game

Abstract

Nowadays, the Virtual reality advances in a startling speed. More and more game company start to make VR games. There are five types of VR game: Non-immersive Virtual Reality, Fully Immersive Virtual Reality, Semi-Immersive Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Collaborative VR. However, this article only talks about semi-immersive virtual reality. Semi-immersive virtual reality which provides a three-dimensional space by headsets is the combination of non-immersive and fully-immersive virtual reality. This article will explore the relationship between Degree of Freedom and semi-Virtually Reality Game. Even though most of the people believe higher the Degree of Freedom is greater the game itself is, this work believes even in Virtual Reality Games, high or low Degree of Freedom server certain purposes but never defines a game’s quality. This paper made two versions of a VR game called In the Castle: one version is low Degree of Freedom, the other is high Degree of Freedom, and organized several experiments to explore the benefits of the low degree of freedom. The result of the experiments shows that the low degree of freedom in VR game can help players concentrate on the game and simplify the preparation.