{"682300":{"#nid":"682300","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AR\/VR Researchers Bring Immersive Experience to News Stories","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt may not be long before augmented reality\/virtual reality (AR\/VR) headsets cause them to keep their phones in their pockets when they want to read The New York Times or The Washington Post.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EData visualization and AR\/VR researchers at Georgia Tech are exploring how users can interact with news stories through AR\/VR headsets and are determining which stories are best suited for virtual presentation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETao Lu, a Ph.D. student at the School of Interactive Computing, Assistant Professor Yalong Yang, and Associate Professor Alex Endert led a recent study that they say is among the first to explore user preference in virtually designed news stories. Yang and Endert are also faculty members in the Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers will present a paper they authored based on the study at the 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems this week in Yokohama, Japan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDigital platforms have elevated explanatory journalism, which provides greater context for a subject through data, images, and in-depth analysis. These platforms also allow stories to be more visually appealing through graphic design and animation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELu said AR\/VR can further elevate explanatory journalism through 3D, interactive spatial environments. He added that media organizations should think about how the stories they produce will appear in AR\/VR as much as they think about how they will appear on mobile devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re giving users another option to experience the story and for designers and developers to show their stories in another modality,\u201d Lu said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA screen-based story on a smartphone is easy to use and cost-effective. However, some stories are better presented in AR\/VR, which will become more popular as technology gets cheaper. AR\/VR can provide 3D spatial information that would be hard to understand on a phone or desktop screen.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/arvr-researchers-bring-immersive-experience-news-stories\u0022\u003ERead more about this research here \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt may not be long before augmented reality\/virtual reality (AR\/VR) headsets cause them to keep their phones in their pockets when they want to read The New York Times or The Washington Post.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"It may not be long before augmented reality\/virtual reality (AR\/VR) headsets cause them to keep their phones in their pockets when they want to read The New York Times or The Washington Post."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-05-09 13:57:53","changed_gmt":"2025-05-09 13:58:22","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677053":{"id":"677053","type":"image","title":"Tao Lu and Yalong Yang","body":"\u003Cp\u003ETao Lu, a Ph.D. student at the School of Interactive Computing, with Assistant Professor Yalong Yang\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1746798675","gmt_created":"2025-05-09 13:51:15","changed":"1746798765","gmt_changed":"2025-05-09 13:52:45","alt":"Tao Lu, a Ph.D. student at the School of Interactive Computing, with Assistant Professor Yalong Yang","file":{"fid":"260915","name":"IMG_3568_copy.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/05\/09\/IMG_3568_copy.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/05\/09\/IMG_3568_copy.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":56603,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/05\/09\/IMG_3568_copy.jpg?itok=pT9uYxG_"}}},"media_ids":["677053"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}