The rapid growth of virtual reality (VR) has led to increased use of social VR platforms for interaction. However, these platforms lack adequate features to support blind and low vision (BLV) users, posing significant challenges in navigation, visual interpretation, and social interaction. One promising approach to these challenges is employing human guides in VR. However, this approach faces limitations with a lack of availability of humans to serve as guides, or the inability to customize the guidance a user receives from the human guide. We introduce an AI-powered guide to address these limitations. The AI guide features six personas, each offering unique behaviors and appearances to meet diverse user needs, along with visual interpretation and navigation assistance. We aim to use this AI guide in the future to help us understand BLV users' preferences for guide forms and functionalities.

翻译：虚拟现实（VR）的快速发展推动了社交VR平台在交互中的广泛应用。然而，这些平台缺乏足够的功能来支持盲人和低视力（BLV）用户，在导航、视觉信息解读和社交互动方面构成了重大挑战。针对这些挑战，一种有前景的方法是在VR中引入人工引导。但该方法存在局限性：缺乏可用的人工引导者，或无法根据用户需求定制人工引导者提供的指引。为此，我们提出了一种人工智能引导系统以突破这些限制。该AI引导系统包含六种角色设定，每种角色通过独特的行为模式与外观设计满足用户的多样化需求，同时提供视觉信息解读与导航辅助功能。未来我们将借助该AI引导系统，深入探究BLV用户对引导形式与功能特性的偏好。