A cross-cultural study of the influence of environmental factors on VR gamers experience of spatial presence, enjoyment, and subjective workload: A preliminary study.

This study is a first step toward identifying some factors influencing spatial presence, enjoyment, and cognitive workload in virtual reality (VR) game play. The was conducted the Northeastern U.S. (n = 40) Southwest Nigeria using factorial experimental design with three environmental (i.e., lighting, flooring, in-game sound) at two levels per factor. Participants were randomly assigned to one of eight conditions, playing VR American football Oculus Rift S on 3 separate days, under different condition each time. Following play, measures presence (α .86), enjoyment .89), subjective .78) collected through self-report surveys. A analysis variance (ANOVA) used examine influence workload. found main effects (a) lighting for Nigerian sample (Day 2 Day 3), (b) flooring both cohorts 2), (c) sound 3) 3). An interaction effect 1 2. 3. We present implications theory practice.