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Travel, or locomotion, is a fundamental and universal task within virtual reality (VR). However, enabling users to freely walk through virtual environments (VE) poses a considerable problem when the VE is larger than the tracked physical space.
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To most people, the act of moving from one place to another (i.e., locomotion or travel) is a common everyday activity. Similarly, locomotion is a fundamental and universal task within virtual reality (VR). Yet allowing users to freely navigate virtual environments (VEs) on foot is anything but a trivial challenge with respect to virtual reality. In the VE the user’s movement should only be constrained by the virtual topography and architecture. However, in reality the user’s physical movement will always be limited by the size of the tracking space.
Locomotion Techniques for Virtual Walking
The literature on virtual walking describes numerous locomotion...
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Nilsson, N.C. (2018). Natural Walking in Virtual Reality. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_201-1
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