Mediate VR

Mediate VR is a platform for speech-driven user research in virtual reality. It captures the emotions, challenges, and pleasures of spatial experience through voice recordings.

Users explore a virtual environment, respond verbally to prompts, and engage in tasks. People don’t remember the details of experiences very well after-the-fact; eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable. But ask someone what they think or see during an event, and they can give specific, accurate feedback. Mediate contextualizes user voice recordings through data captured from the virtual environment, synthesizing insights and feedback in real time for our clients through an admin dashboard.

Mediate is unique because we’re focused on using VR as a tool to help us understand real-world and mixed-reality experiences and applications. The combination of voice and VR allows us to gather a flexible, detailed database that connects voice data to the physical environment. Qualitative voice data is valuable because it allows users to provide direct insight in their own words, and gives rich information about emotional state. Mediate creates a user-data layer on top of virtual environments, combining speech data with contextual information about the model and user behavior. This makes other forms of collected data easier to interpret: imagine being able to connect a user’s mood, what they’re trying to do, and their environmental context. We use this data to generate insights about what is driving frustration, joy, or boredom.