NDLI: Safe-&-round: bringing redirected walking to small virtual reality laboratories

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Steinicke, Frank Lubos, Paul Bruder, Gerd
Abstract	Walking is usually considered the most natural form for self-motion in a virtual environment (VE). However, the confined physical workspace of typical virtual reality (VR) labs often prevents natural exploration of larger VEs. Redirected walking has been introduced as a potential solution to this restriction, but corresponding techniques often induce enormous manipulations if the workspace is considerably small and lacks natural experiences therefore. In this poster we propose the Safe-&-Round user interface, which supports natural walking in a potentially infinite virtual scene while confined to a considerably restricted physical workspace. This virtual locomotion technique relies on a safety volume, which is displayed as a semi-transparent half-capsule, inside which the user can walk without manipulations caused by redirected walking.
Starting Page	154
Ending Page	154
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450328203
DOI	10.1145/2659766.2661219
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2014-10-04
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Spatial user interfaces Locomotion Virtual environments
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Safe-&-round: bringing redirected walking to small virtual reality laboratories