Quality Assessment of Virtual Reality Software Applications

Abstract

The advent of Virtual Reality (VR) technology has significantly affected most of our life sectors such as entertaining applications, education, gaming, knowledge acquisition, engineering, and science fields, to mention a few. This is due to the innovative ways that VR offers in terms of interactions and the immersive experience with the environment, which is necessarily different from the traditional 2D ways. However, one of the most frequent issues in the VR applications are the approaches used in evaluating the quality of these applications. Hence, this paper proposes VR application for visualizing big and complex biological data. Then, the proposed application is assessed under a variety of VR software evaluation metrics. Questionnaires are distributed to expert biologists aiming at having accurate insights about the quality of the proposed VR application. The metrics used in the assessment are; performance, usability, user engagement, accuracy, and safety. The findings showed promising results that can be adopted by VR developers.