With eye tracking inside a headset, how often do viewers never look at content placed outside their starting field of view in a 360-degree video, and do arrow cues change that?
Liu, Xu, Yang, Li and Huang (Frontiers in Psychology 12:792069, CC BY, Europe PMC full text PMC8828640) eye-tracked 110 students (HTC Vive Pro + Tobii Pro VR, 120 Hz) watching a 3 min 24 s 360-degree animated science video in four conditions. Without arrows, 57% of the group whose annotations lay outside the initial field of view had zero fixation on them, and their annotation-area fixation was about half that of the in-view group (6.98 s vs 14.03 s); adding arrows in the initial view restored it (13.64 s, p<0.001 vs the no-arrow outside group). This is a measured missed-content rate with gaze data, which corroborates the concern in the earlier batch that unguided viewers miss off-screen content, but the stimulus is an educational animation, the arrows were combined with text annotations, and the test answers were stressed in the annotations shown to cued groups, so learning gains cannot be credited to guidance alone. It is not a narrative-film study.
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