Adapting First-Person Shooter Video Game for Playing with Virtual Reality Headsets

P. 412–415.

Makarov I., Konoplya O., Pavel Polyakov, Maxim Martynov, Zyuzin P., Gerasimova O., Bodishtianu Valeria

In this article a combination of two modern aspects of games development is considered: (i) the impact of high quality graphics and virtual reality (VR) user adaptation to believe in realness of in-game events by user’s own eyes; (ii) modeling an enemy’s behavior under automatic computer control, called BOT, which reacts similarly to human players. We consider a First-Person Shooter (FPS) game genre, which simulates an experience of combat actions. We describe some tricks to overcome simulator sicknesses in a shooter with respect to Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets. We created a BOT model that strongly reduces the conflict and uncertainty in matching human expectations. BOT passes VR game Alan Turing test with 80% threshold of believable human-like behavior.

Keywords: virtual reality, reinforcement learning, Game Artificial Intelligence, video games, first-person shooter, Unreal engine 4

Publication based on the results of: Explanation-oriented Methods of Data Analysis for Semantically Rich Data and Their Applications (2017)

In book

Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2017, Marco Island, Florida, USA, May 22-24, 2017. AAAI Press 2017, ISBN 978-1-57735-787-2

Palo Alto: AAAI Press, 2017.