VV Editor - A Tool for Creating Volumetric Video Trainings for Extended Reality

This paper introduces the Volumetric Video (VV) Editor, an innovative software tool designed for trainers to create immersive training experiences utilizing Volumetric Videos. These enable an immersive three-dimensional representation of an object or scene through point cloud visualization. Additionally, their creation is less time-consuming and, therefore, more costeffective as it requires less expertise compared to the creation of animated 3D meshes of the same object or scene. The VV Editor is one of three applications that together form a larger pipeline that makes it possible to create immersive training content based on Volumetric Videos. It allows trainers to effectively edit video content and enhance it with additional spatial information, thereby ensuring a meaningful training process in Extended Reality (XR) environments. To validate the initial version of the VV Editor a preliminary user study was conducted that showed promising results regarding user engagement and satisfaction while also highlighting possible areas of improvement.