Societal XR—A Vision Paper

[摘要] Most current research and developments in the field of extended reality follow a rather onesided agenda: Creating virtual content, virtual worlds, and even metaverses that require all users towear suitable head-mounted displays. They thereby reduce the application of XR to limited spacesand (relatively) few users and exclude users such as preschool children and people with certaindisabilities. Only a few approaches such as Spatial Augmented Reality and Social XR overcome atleast some of these limitations. So far, a vision for a truly public XR that can be used by everyonewithout wearing technology on their bodies, is missing. This vision paper, therefore, wants to giveXR research and development an additional new direction. It coins the term "Societal XR" for a formof extended reality that moves technology into the environment, becomes accessible to everyoneincluding children and people with disabilities, and integrates virtuality into their users’ reality,into their everyday life, and into public spaces.

[学科分类] 环境工程

[关键词] Societal XR;Extended Reality;Virtual Reality;Ambient Intelligence;Ubiquitous Computing