Preliminary Investigation of Real and Simulated Central Vision Loss on Visual Attention in Virtual Reality

Little is known about how individuals with low vision attend to 3D environments in a virtual environment (VE). This study investigates the visual attention of normal vision under a simulated vision loss and real central vision loss in a VE. We present a qualitative comparison of the saliency maps of visual attention generated from eye-tracking data of participants with normal vision under no loss and simulated low vision, saliency maps generated by a participant with low vision with and without corrective spectacles, and a saliency map generated by a computational prediction model.