Ryo Ohara

When the Audience Laughs with You: Effects of Virtual Audience Laughter Modality and Synchrony on Comedy Viewing in VR

Laugh tracks are a well-known technique for amplifying humor perception through audio. However, it remains unclear how such amplification transfers to VR, where audiences are embodied as virtual co-viewers in emerging shared entertainment spaces. To address this, we examined two design dimensions of virtual audience la...