RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 VREX: An Open-Source Toolbox for Creating 3D Virtual Reality Experiments
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 105858
DO 10.1101/105858
A1 Madis Vasser
A1 Markus Kängsepp
A1 Murad Magomedkerimov
A1 Kälver Kilvits
A1 Vladislav Stafinjak
A1 Taavi Kivisik
A1 Raul Vicente
A1 Jaan Aru
YR 2017
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/02/03/105858.abstract
AB Background We present VREX, a free open-source Unity toolbox for virtual reality research in the fields of experimental psychology and neuroscience.Results Different study protocols about perception, attention, cognition and memory can be constructed using the toolbox. VREX provides a procedural generation of (interconnected) rooms that can be automatically furnished with a click of a button. VREX includes a menu system for creating and storing experiments with different stages. Researchers can combine different rooms and environments to perform end-to-end experiments including different testing situations and data collection. For fine-tuned control VREX also comes with an editor where all the objects in the virtual room can be manually placed and adjusted in the 3D world.Conclusions VREX simplifies the generation and setup of complicated VR scenes and experiments for researchers. VREX can be downloaded and easily installed from vrex.mozello.com