Senior's Acceptance of Head-Mounted Display Using Consumer Based Virtual Reality Contents

摘要

Head-mounted display has been commercialized and have made a considerable market in the virtual reality industry. While many seniors have interest to the consumer head-mounted display, the opportunity to experience the head-mounted display is still very limited. Hence this paper aims to resolve whether the current contents or products are acceptable and to clarify the challenges to discuss solutions. To investigate on this issue, an event to experience head-mounted display took place within a regional event for seniors at Kashiwa city in Japan. During the event, voluntary participants were asked to answer the questionnaires. The questionnaire was gathered from 5 seniors over age 60 and 10 young under the age 60. The seniors acceptance level was not so high in contrast to the young. However, positive results indicated seniors enjoyed experiencing the head-mounted display contents, willing to experience more opportunities, and also highly recommend to experience to others.