Research Trends in Virtual Reality Locomotion Techniques

Martinez, Esteban Segarra; Wu, Annie S.; McMahan, Ryan P.

doi:10.1109/vr51125.2022.00046

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“…Another popular class of locomotion methods for moving through a virtual environment is a class called steering methods (Al Zayer et al, 2020;Martinez et al, 2022).…”

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Virtual reality as a tool to understand spatial navigation

Creem-Regehr¹,

Kelly²,

Bodenheimer³

et al. 2025

Encyclopedia of the Human Brain

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“…Another popular class of locomotion methods for moving through a virtual environment is a class called steering methods (Al Zayer et al, 2020;Martinez et al, 2022).…”

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Virtual reality as a tool to understand spatial navigation

Creem-Regehr¹,

Kelly²,

Bodenheimer³

et al. 2025

Encyclopedia of the Human Brain

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“…The first method is teleportation (Fig. 3a), which is commonplace in VR applications [65]. The user simply needs to point at a location, press forward with the controller's thumbstick and this will teleport the user to the indicated location.…”

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Toward an Edu-Metaverse of Knowledge: Immersive Exploration of University Courses

Sin,

Jia,

et al. 2023

IEEE Trans. Learning Technol.

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Metaverse, an alternative universe for play, work and interaction, has become a captivating topic for academia and industry in recent times. This opens the question on what a metaverse for education, or edu-metaverse, should look like. It is believed that this metaverse for learning should be grounded by a pedagogical theory. Particularly, we propose a constructivist metaverse learning theory with eight actionable principles to guide the edu-metaverse and its applications. With this metaverse learning theory, we further propose the framework for an edu-metaverse; it is essentially walkable yellow pages that connect knowledge. The core idea is to combine the structure of knowledge graphs and the immersion of virtual reality in order to facilitate association, exploration and engagement in learning. Our current prototype for this edu-metaverse vision, K-Cube VR, is also presented. We have tested K-Cube VR for the introduction of course topics to our students and the results indicate that our edu-metaverse framework benefits students by providing a focused environment and structured learning on the topics of a course, akin to a mind map. Overall, in this paper, we present an edu-metaverse design that is rooted in a constructivist pedagogy that already shows promising results from a pilot user study via our metaverse prototype.

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“…A taxonomy can be especially helpful for "interaction aspects and functionalities that were previously difficult to describe" [4]. For example, Martinez et al [17] use the taxonomy by Bowman et al [68] to structure their systematic review and Di Luca et al [19] use taxonomy elements for their VR locomotion online database called LocomotionVault.…”

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“…Currently, there exist several different VR locomotion taxonomies [16]. Thus, researchers who want to use a VR locomotion taxon-Manuscript received May 9, 2022; revised August 22, 2022. omy or the contained locomotion concepts in surveys [17], related works [18], or knowledge databases [19] first need to choose one. A well-founded decision requires an overview of all potential choices and a decision basis.…”

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A Systematic Literature Review of Virtual Reality Locomotion Taxonomies

Prinz

Mathew

Weyers

2023

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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The change of the user's viewpoint in an immersive virtual environment, called locomotion, is one of the key components in a virtual reality interface. Effects of locomotion, such as simulator sickness or disorientation, depend on the specific design of the locomotion method and can influence the task performance as well as the overall acceptance of the virtual reality system. Thus, it is important that a locomotion method achieves the intended effects. The complexity of this task has increased with the growing number of locomotion methods and design choices in recent years. Locomotion taxonomies are classification schemes that group multiple locomotion methods and can aid in the design and selection of locomotion methods. Like locomotion methods themselves, there exist multiple locomotion taxonomies, each with a different focus and, consequently, a different possible outcome. However, there is little research that focuses on locomotion taxonomies. We performed a systematic literature review to provide an overview of possible locomotion taxonomies and analysis of possible decision criteria such as impact, common elements, and use cases for locomotion taxonomies. We aim to support future research on the design, choice, and evaluation of locomotion taxonomies and thereby support future research on virtual reality locomotion.

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Research Trends in Virtual Reality Locomotion Techniques

Cited by 36 publications

References 79 publications

Virtual reality as a tool to understand spatial navigation

Virtual reality as a tool to understand spatial navigation

Toward an Edu-Metaverse of Knowledge: Immersive Exploration of University Courses

A Systematic Literature Review of Virtual Reality Locomotion Taxonomies

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