Connecting virtual reality and ecology: a new tool to run seamless immersive experiments in R.

ABSTRACT: Virtual reality (VR) technology is an emerging tool that is supporting the connection between conservation research and public engagement with environmental issues. The use of VR in ecology consists of interviewing diverse groups of people while they are immersed within a virtual ecosystem to produce better information than more traditional surveys. However, at present, the relatively high level of expertise in specific programming languages and disjoint pathways required to run VR experiments hinder their wider application in ecology and other sciences. We present R2VR, a package for implementing and performing VR experiments in R with the aim of easing the learning curve for applied scientists including ecologists. The package provides functions for rendering VR scenes on web browsers wi

SUBMITTER: Vercelloni J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8176535 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature