Figures & data
Figure 1. Overview of the available VR cameras. As consumer products both 2D 360° cameras and 3D 180° cameras are sold. 3D 360° cameras are sold for the professional market. For this project we chose a 3D 180° camera as the best feature price compromise.
Figure 2. A 180° 3D camera worn on a head strap for video recording.
Table 1. List of videos created by the five departments of internal medicine.
Figure 3. Screenshot of one of the recorded videos on the YouTube platform, viewed in 2D on a computer. The video was published as private, so only invited guests can watch it. The perspective can be changed by dragging the mouse or by clicking on the arrows in the top left part of the video.
Table 2. Demographic features of the students in the course.
Table 3. Differences in the scores of the items for learning success, course evaluation, and self-assessment between students who watched the videos in an immersive way with a Google Cardboard Viewer and those who viewed non-immersively on a Computer, Tablet or Phone.
Figure 4. Three different Google Cardboard viewers: (from left to right) Homido V2, Homido mini, and Google Cardboard 2015.
Supplemental Material
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The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.