Landscape Design Outdoor–Indoor VR Environments User Experience

Virtual reality (VR) helps to visualize the spatial relationships between different elements of landscape in architecture, allowing user feel designed environment and navigate through it interactively. VR can be used spaces both indoors (inside a building) outdoors (landscape). In present research, perception 3D during navigation was compared indoor outdoor virtual environments. The value experience measured with Questionnaire on User eXperience Immersive Environments, analyzing presence, engagement, immersion, flow, skill, emotion, usability, technology adoption, judgment consequence subscales. overall self-reported experience, results showed that higher open environments than closed ones. Regarding subscales, existence obstacles limits freedom movement, which causes lesser sense presence. A more fluid also generates positive effects flow subscale. environments, lighting shadows, help orientation tasks navigation, facilitates increases immersion. light plays less important role navigation.