Comparing perceptions of web-based 2D perspective and 360-degree navigable images with measurements from a physical space and a virtual reality headset
Web-based experiments offer an appealing alternative to in-person experiments on visual perception. When in-person experiments were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors developed a web-based experiment to collect perceptions of eight LED lighting scenarios using 2D perspective and 360-degree navigable panoramic image types. The perceptions from the web-based experiment were then compared to perceptions of those same eight lighting conditions from an earlier in-person experiment, where participants viewed the conditions in the physical space or through a virtual reality head-mounted display.