The Vr Book by Jason Jerald

The Vr Book

Human-centered Design for Virtual Reality

Jason Jerald

Morgan & Claypool Publishers · Print & ebook · September 1, 2015

This is a strong foundation of human-centric virtual reality design for anyone and everyone involved in creating VR experiences.

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Who it’s for
Jason Jerald examines how people perceive, interact with, and respond to virtual reality experiences.
Themes
Human-centered VR design, Perception and interaction in VR, VR sickness and user experience
Genres
Virtual Worlds, Human-Computer Interaction, UI/UX Design

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This is a strong foundation of human-centric virtual reality design for anyone and everyone involved in creating VR experiences. Without a clear understanding of the human side of virtual reality (VR), the experience will always fail. The VR Bookbridges this gap by focusing on human-centered design. Creating compelling VR applications is an incredibly complex challenge.

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When done well, these experiences can be brilliant and pleasurable, but when done badly, they can result in frustration and sickness. Whereas limitations of technology can cause bad VR execution, problems are oftentimes caused by a lack of understanding human perception, interaction, design principles, and real users. This book focuses on the human elements of VR, such as how users perceive and intuitively interact with various forms of reality, causes of VR sickness, creating useful and pleasing content, and how to design and iterate upon effective VR applications. This book is not just for VR designers, it is for managers, programmers, artists, psychologists, engineers, students, educators, and user experience professionals. It is for the entire VR team, as everyone contributing should understand at least the basics of the many aspects of VR design. The industry is rapidly evolving, and The VR Book stresses the importance of building prototypes, gathering feedback, and using adjustable processes to efficiently iterate towards success. It contains extensive details on the most important aspects of VR, more than 600 applicable guidelines, and over 300 additional references.

Human-Centered VR

Jason Jerald examines how people perceive, interact with, and respond to virtual reality experiences.

Come here for

  • Human perception and intuitive interaction in VR
  • Causes of VR sickness and design principles

Expect

  • More than 600 applicable design guidelines
  • Guidance on prototyping, feedback, and iteration

Where it sits

Virtual Worlds97%
Human-Computer Interaction82%
UI/UX Design35%

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Publisher categories

  • Game Dev
  • Computer Science
  • Programming Basics
Authors
Jason Jerald
Publisher
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Published
September 1, 2015
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Human-centered VR design · Perception and interaction in VR · VR sickness and user experience
Reading lane
Game Dev