Walking and Teleportation in Wide-area Virtual Reality Experiences

Sayyad, Ehsan; Sra, Misha; Höllerer, Tobias

doi:10.1109/ismar50242.2020.00088

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“…Of the remaining 84 participants, average age was 26.2 years (SD = 7.0). The specific HMD used by participants, in order of frequency, included Oculus Quest (34), Oculus Rift S (17), Valve Index (13), HTC Vive (13), Oculus Rift (4), and HTC Vive Pro (2). Task performance did not differ across the different HMD types.…”

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“…The teleporting interface is popular in part because it is easy to use [4,22] and does not typically contribute to cybersickness [9,22,26,38]. Despite these advantages, users often prefer real walking over teleporting [34]. It has been suggested that the teleporting interface degrades the user's presence, or experience of being in the virtual environment [36], perhaps because teleporting creates discontinuities in the user's experience of space compared to continuous locomotion.…”

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“…It has been suggested that the teleporting interface degrades the user's presence, or experience of being in the virtual environment [36], perhaps because teleporting creates discontinuities in the user's experience of space compared to continuous locomotion. However, research evidence for the assertion that teleporting degrades presence has typically produced null results [22] or non-significant trends in the predicted direction [12,34]. Some implementations of the teleporting interface blend walking with teleporting so that the user can walk within the open space while teleporting is used to redirect them away from physical boundaries [11,24].…”

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Teleporting through virtual environments: benefits of navigational feedback and practice

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Virtual environments (VEs) can be infinitely large, but movement of the virtual reality (VR) user is constrained by the surrounding real environment. Teleporting has become a popular locomotion interface to allow complete exploration of the VE. To teleport, the user selects the intended position (and sometimes orientation) before being instantly transported to that location. However, locomotion interfaces such as teleporting can cause disorientation. This experiment explored whether practice and feedback when using the teleporting interface can reduce disorientation. VR headset owners participated remotely. On each trial of a triangle completion task the participant traveled along two path legs through a VE before attempting to point to the path origin. Travel was completed with one of two teleporting interfaces that differed in the availability of rotational self-motion cues. Participants in the feedback condition received feedback about their pointing accuracy. For both teleporting interfaces tested, feedback caused significant improvement in pointing performance, and practice alone caused only marginal improvement. These results suggest that disorientation in VR can be reduced through feedback-based training.

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“…Independent of educational content, affordances can elicit affective responses, too (Sundar, 2008). Published works suggest at least a preference for natural walking over teleportation-read: navigation- (Sayers, 2004;Sayyad et al, 2020), but no available research predicts a directional affective response to proximal or distal piloting orientations in VR. Given this information would be of interest to designers of both entertainment and educational VR environments, we ask the question:…”

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Grave errors: Exploring the influence of motion mechanics on learning outcomes in a virtual cemetery.

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Systematic research examining affordances such as navigability are important for understanding how to design virtual learning environments. To explore this, a fully immersive virtual cemetery modeled after Edgar Lee Masters' (1915) fictitious Spoon River Anthology was created to assess how motion mechanics related to participant navigability would influence learning outcomes. A 2 × 2, fully crossed, between-subjects (N = 116) experiment manipulating navigation type (natural walking vs. teleportation) and type of piloting (proximal vs. distal orientations) was tested. Participants used the Oculus Rift S virtual reality (VR) headset with a portable backpack, allowing unimpeded movement to complete the study. Results demonstrated that the type of navigation and piloting orientation differentially influenced learning performance. Specifically, an interaction effect occurred where participants in the natural walking with a distal orientation condition showed significantly higher scores on narrative testing, spatial location, and spatial reconstruction tasks, when compared to the teleportation with distal orientation condition. Implications for how these findings may be used in VR environments where the prime objective is learning are discussed.

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“…When walking is not an automatic process anymore it has consequences for issues such as maintaining a stable position and, more general, effects on presence. From experiments with standalone VR headsets and 'natural' walking in sports-arena-sized virtual environments, it has been suggested that walking-based VR in wide-area environments can become feasible for general audiences [20]. In such situations safety of VR users is of course the first priority.…”

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Experiencing Social Augmented Reality in Public Spaces

Nijholt

2021

Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of The

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We present various views on the future use of augmented reality in public spaces. The views address enhanced walking, social activity, appropriation of public spaces, and futuristic social aspects of future outdoor augmented reality. Although we often refer to handheld augmented reality, the focus is on more natural ways of experiencing augmented reality. That is, not using a device at all (projection or mirror-based augmented reality) or using optical seethrough smart eyewear such as smart glasses or lenses that allow the experience of ever-present vision and audio-based augmented reality. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing; • Ubiquitous and mobile computing; Human-centered computing; • Mixed / augmented reality;

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Walking and Teleportation in Wide-area Virtual Reality Experiences

Cited by 34 publications

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Teleporting through virtual environments: benefits of navigational feedback and practice

Teleporting through virtual environments: benefits of navigational feedback and practice

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