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Research withVR
Research withVR is a toolbox of customizable virtual reality scenarios to support researchers by bringing real-life situations directly to their lab.
Prepare
Set up the speaking situations to your needs and prepare everything before your participants arrive. Define how the situation unfolds down to the second, and keep preparing as many situations as you like to test multiple hypotheses.
Automate
Using Research withVR, every participant can receive the same experience. Automating allows for unbiased data collection and reduces the risk of outliers. You can pause the situation or change it in real-time if needed.
Extra data
With eye-tracking inside VR, you can gain additional data such as gaze behaviors and eye closures. Research withVR uses advanced virtual reality headsets and provides you with all raw data, including timestamps and the possibility of subjective ratings.
Since 2015, we've been developing VR software to research speech. It turned out more researchers wanted to use this software! Today, that software is called Research withVR.
Create avatars
Using Research withVR, you can create avatars that look like you, your participant’s teacher, or a stranger! Then, they can practice speaking with them inside virtual reality and better relate it to real life!
Change their expressions
Our avatars contain 72 different face shapes that we blend together to create realistic facial expressions. You can find our library of facial expressions next to the avatar animations and adjust the facial expression of any avatar!
Animate them
Research withVR has a library of animations. Using these animations, you can select the avatar of your choice and animate them in real-time. Animation examples include asking a question, fidgeting, looking around, and more!
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As of 2020, we've been collaborating with 100+ leading speech therapists and researchers from 30 different countries worldwide. Together, we advanced this software for other researchers to benefit.
Prepare the events that will unfold
You have full control of everything that will happen inside the speaking situation. Using Research withVR, you can create events. Events are any change that will happen inside the environment. You can select the avatar(s) and type what you want them to say. Perhaps you'll make the avatar(s) react in a certain way or even create background noise. All events can be prepared down to the second, and you can have as many events as you like per second! Your prepared events can be edited or deleted later, and you can also export all of your events to a CSV file.
Total control
Pause your events
Did your participant respond to your events sooner than expected? That's okay. You can pause any event at any moment!
Fast forward to the next event
Participants are also known to speed through what we had planned! No problem, you can also fast forward to the next event you've prepared!
Override events in real-time
In research, we can never be prepared for everything. Using Research withVR, you can override anything inside a situation at any moment!
In 2023, we supported 15 research projects - undergrads, postgrads, Ph.Ds., and more! From Europe to North America to Asia!
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