A collaborative game to study the perception of presence during virtual co-location

The paper describes a collaborative game to explore the different perception of presence in real world and augmented reality scenarios. The game requires players to share their expertise to collaboratively build a tower with differently colored physical blocks or virtual blocks in augmented reality (AR). It serves as an approximation of collaboratively solving shared complex problems. Being played in a real-world scenario as well as augmented reality scenario, the game can be used to study the different perception of presence.

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