Familiar Size Reliably Affects Size and Distance Perception in High-Resolution Virtual Reality

Abstract

Previously, our lab found that size and distance perception in virtual reality (VR) is determined primarily by the familiar size of objects under monocular and binocular viewing conditions (Rzepka, V-VSS 2021). Here we examined: 1) whether the familiar size effect generalizes to diverse objects; and 2) whether binocular viewing has more influence when using a state-of-the-art VR headset (Varjo XR1).