Virtual spaces and real world places: transfer of route knowledge

Witmer, Bob G.; Bailey, John H.; Knerr, Bruce W.; Parsons, Kimberley C.

doi:10.1006/ijhc.1996.0060

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“…Under certain circumstances VR-users take significantly longer to learn virtual environments than comparable real environments (Richardson, Montello, & Hegarty, 1999;Witmer, Bailey, Knerr, & Parsons, 1996), and often produce large random and systematic errors in virtual environment (VE) navigation (Riecke, 2008). Recent studies have demonstrated that participants in visually-based VR also produce certain novel types of qualitative errors such as left-right confusion or failure to update visually simulated rotations altogether (Klatzky, Loomis, Beall, Chance, & Golledge, 1998;Avraamides, Klatzky, Loomis, & Golledge, 2004;Riecke, 2008).…”

Section: Spatial Orientation In Vrmentioning

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Do We Need to Walk for Effective Virtual Reality Navigation? Physical Rotations Alone May Suffice

Riecke

Bodenheimer

McNamara

et al. 2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Physical rotations and translations are the basic constituents of navigation behavior, yet there is mixed evidence about their relative importance for complex navigation in virtual reality (VR). In the present experiment, 24 participants wore head-mounted displays and performed navigational search tasks with rotations/translations controlled by physical motion or joystick. As expected, physical walking showed performance benefits over joystick navigation. Controlling translations via joystick and rotations via physical rotations led to better performance than joystick navigation, and yielded almost comparable performance to actual walking in terms of search efficiency and time. Walking resulted, however, in increased viewpoint changes and shorter navigation paths, suggesting a rotation/translation tradeoff and different navigation strategies. While previous studies have emphasized the importance of full physical motion via walking (Ruddle & Lessels, 2006, our data suggests that considerable navigation improvements can already be gained by allowing for full-body rotations, without the considerable cost, space, tracking, and safety requirements of free-space walking setups.

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Do We Need to Walk for Effective Virtual Reality Navigation? Physical Rotations Alone May Suffice

Riecke

Bodenheimer

McNamara

et al. 2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…It has been found that spatial cognition in virtual environments is similar to that in the real world (Ruddle et al 1997;Wilson et al 1997;Witmer et al 1996). Theories on virtual navigation (Darken and Sibert 1996;Jul and Furnas 1997;Chen and Stanney 1999) suggested that navigation in a virtual environment could be a multiple-level process, similar to a person's behavior in the real world (Loomis and Beall 1998;Timpf and Kuhn 2003).…”

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M2S maps: supporting real-world navigation with mobile VR

Zhang

2006

Virtual Reality

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Mobile devices are becoming increasingly integrated into our society. In addition to entertaining people with applications like pervasive games, mobile devices can also help to address cognitive challenges people face in the real world. This paper, by drawing on research findings from cognitive psychology and geography, explores a design to use mobile VR to help people overcome one cognitive barrier in navigation, which is to establish the correspondence between 2D spatial information found in maps and 3D entities they perceive from the real world. The design offers users multi-format, multi-scale, and semantic (M 2 S) maps, ranging from 2D maps to 3D immersive environments, and helps users to connect 2D maps to the real world through 3D environments which are equipped with semantic representation and animation techniques. Consequently, users can apply various kinds of spatial knowledge, 2D or 3D, in understanding the real world as well as assisting in navigation. This research enhances the design repertoire of mobile VR, and suggests a way to integrate virtual environments into people's real-world life by examining the cognitive implications of 3D models on users' activities.

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“…Field of view (FOV) of the HMD gives the world builder yet more compromises to make. Although theory is limited, narrow FOVs may hinder task performances such as maneuvering, grasping objects and locating moving targets [30]. Wider FOVs may improve performance and also feelings of involvement and presence, but this comes at the expense of greater weight and size of the HMD and possibly worse image resolution [31].…”

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Styles or Cultural Background does Influence the Colors of Virtual Reality Games?

Sik-Lányi

2014

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Virtual spaces and real world places: transfer of route knowledge

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Do We Need to Walk for Effective Virtual Reality Navigation? Physical Rotations Alone May Suffice

Do We Need to Walk for Effective Virtual Reality Navigation? Physical Rotations Alone May Suffice

M2S maps: supporting real-world navigation with mobile VR

Styles or Cultural Background does Influence the Colors of Virtual Reality Games?

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