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Adding head tracking to desktop virtual reality with the Wii remote as an aid to spatial cognition

Published: 30 September 2009 Publication History

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Desktop virtual reality (VR) provides a more economical and ubiquitous way to present virtual reality to people, at the cost of a significant amount of immersion. Our study explores the addition of a low-cost head-tracking system to a desktop VR system and its impact on spatial cognition. The head-tracking system is used to provide a more 3D-like interface to VR by providing parallax and allowing user access to a larger visual field than is provided by the limited viewing angle of the display monitor. Such an interface, while not providing a full set of vestibular cues, may provide enough additional information to improve spatial learning.

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Kelly, J. W., and McNamara, T. P. 2008. Spatial memories of virtual environments: How egocentric experience, intrinsic structure, and extrinsic structure interact. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 15, 2, 322--327.
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Lee, J. C. 2008. Hacking the nintendo wii remote. IEEE Pervasive Computing 7, 3, 39--45.

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APGV '09: Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization
September 2009
139 pages
ISBN:9781605587431
DOI:10.1145/1620993

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Published: 30 September 2009

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September 30 - October 2, 2009
Chania, Crete, Greece

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