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Space walk: a combination of subtle redirected walking techniques integrated with gameplay and narration

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Eike Langbehn,

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SIGGRAPH '19: ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Emerging Technologies

Article No.: 24, Pages 1 - 2

https://doi.org/10.1145/3305367.3327976

Published: 28 July 2019 Publication History

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Redirected walking (RDW) denotes a collection of techniques for immersive virtual environments (IVEs), in which users are unknowingly guided on paths in the real world that vary from the paths they perceive in the IVE. For this Emerging Technologies exhibit we present a playful virtual reality (VR) experience that introduces a combination of those RDW techniques such as bending gains, rotation gains, and impossible spaces, which are all subtly integrated with the gameplay and narration to perfectly fit the given environment. Those perceptual tricks allow users to explore a virtual space station of 45 m² in a room-scale setup by natural walking only.

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Störmer MSchmelter TWeingart MHernadi LHoster JLangbehn EHildebrand K(2023)A Study on Multi-User Interaction-based Redirected WalkingProceedings of the 2023 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction10.1145/3607822.3614531(1-11)Online publication date: 13-Oct-2023
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Space walk: a combination of subtle redirected walking techniques integrated with gameplay and narration
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Virtual reality

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DOI:10.1145/3305367

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