Gaze Guidance in Immersive Environments

We investigate the efficiency of five different gaze guidance techniques for immersive environments, probing our peripheral vision’s sensitivity to different stimuli embedded in complex, real-world panorama still images. We conducted extensive user studies for a commercially available headset as well as in a custom-built dome projection environment. The dome enables us to create true 360° visual immersion at high-resolution, akin to what may be expected of future-generation VR headsets. Evaluation with high-quality eye tracking shows that local luminance modulation as proposed by Bailey et al. is the most effective technique, eliciting saccades to the target region with up to 40% success rate within the first second.