User Information Perception in Virtual Reality Environment

With the development of virtual reality (VR) technology, panoramic video, a new method that is the fusion of VR technology and panoramic video technology, have gradually emerged and developed rapidly. Nowadays, VR panoramic video is becoming the most important application of virtual reality technology. Although the amount of video information is large, the user acceptance rate is relatively low and the perception is weak, which has a certain negative impact on the popularity of VR. Currently, there are few types of research on the VR information perception field, and the existing researches lack a great division of user characteristics and panoramic video types. Therefore, this paper mainly discusses the following two questions: Is the user’s information perception level in the VR environment significantly better than that in the traditional media environment? Do event types and user characteristics in VR videos affect users’ perception of information? In response to the questions, a total of 20 participants were recruited for the research. Through the analysis of the statistical calculation, this paper draws the conclusion: Media type has a significant impact on user information perception and the perception in the VR environment is significantly better than that of traditional media. Besides, this paper also finds a phenomenon: the user characteristics and the proportion of event types in the video have an impact on the user information perception effect. It shows that the higher the level of education, the better the information perception effect (ages between 20-30); the higher the proportion of mobile events and emergencies in the video, the better the user information perception effect.