“One Word, One World”: a generative AI-empowered real-time VR co-creation system and its impact on social presence and collaboration patterns
摘要
To lower technical barriers to content creation in Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs), this paper presents “One Word, One World,” a natural-language-driven VR co-creation system. Integrating speech recognition with generative AI, the system allows users to initiate 3D asset generation through spoken commands, receive immediate shared placeholder feedback, and manipulate materialized assets within a multi-user environment supported by soft locking, synchronized state updates, and authorship visualization. We validated the system through a within-subjects study (N = 48) comparing this voice-driven paradigm against a traditional asset-library baseline. Results indicate that the AI condition significantly increased creative throughput (p < .001) and expert-rated design quality (p = .007). Furthermore, the system enhanced social presence and psychological safety, particularly for participants with limited technical backgrounds. These findings suggest that language-driven generative co-creation can improve creative efficiency while lowering technical barriers to visible participation, particularly for users with limited 3D modeling experience.