Live Captions in Virtual Reality (VR)

Understand

Few VR applications and games implement captioning of speech and audio cues, which either inhibits or prevents access of their application by deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) users, new language learners, and other caption users.

• Additionally, little to no guidelines exist on how to implement live captioning on VR headsets and how it may differ from traditional television captioning.
• To help fill the void of information behind user preferences of different VR captioning styles, we conducted a study with eight DHH participants to test three caption movement behaviors (headlocked, lag, and appear) while watching live-captioned, single-speaker presentations in VR.
• Participants answered a series of Likert scale and open-ended questions about their experience.