From the comfort of home: examining consumer virtual reality use in the home
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Despite the hype that has driven mass-market consumer virtual reality (VR), research relating to the at-home use of these technologies is underexplored. The contexts, responses, and experiences of people who use VR offer insight into the ways that VR is becoming a domestic technology. Applying methods drawn from digital ethnography, our research asks how participants interpret their use of VR in the home, and how they integrate it into their social, personal, and material contexts. We examine data consisting of interviews, images, and videos from participants (n = 15) across 10 countries to begin to chart the complexities of the real-world conditions of VR. Our findings show that as these participants make efforts to creatively integrate VR into their everyday routines, the enjoyment that they describe is entwined with a variety of difficulties, demonstrating that consumer VR offloads a burden of adaptation onto the people who bring these technologies into their homes.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it