Virtual Transcendent Dream

Description

Lucid-dreaming practice offers many benefits for lucid dreamers, allowing them to experience self-transcendent emotions and empowerment. Flying is frequent type of a lucid dream that can bring about such benefits. VR offers an intriguing opportunity to simulate a transcendent dream, without requiring a immersants to learn how to lucid dream. In this project we have explored the potential of VR to afford a virtual transcendent dream-like experience. Additionally we have evaluated the role that embodiment plays in achieving the benefits of transcendent dream by comparing a regular joystick interface with a more embodied leaning interface for locomotion in VR.

My role

I performed mentoring role for junior colleague, Pinyao. I have assisted with data analysis, literature review, and presentation of results.

Collaborators

Pinyao Liu

Alexandra Kitson

Bernhard Riecke

Publications

Liu, P., Stepanova, E. R., Kitson, A., Schiphorst, T. & Riecke, B. E. Virtual Transcendent Dream: Empowering People through Embodied Flying in Virtual Reality in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2022), 1–18.

Tags

Self-transcendence