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Does neck viewing angle affect spatial orientation in an HMD-based VE?

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Betsy Williams,

Preston Tunnell Wilson,

Gayathri Narasimham,

Timothy P. McNamara,

Bobby BodenheimerAuthors Info & Claims

SAP '13: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception

Pages 111 - 114

https://doi.org/10.1145/2492494.2492516

Published: 22 August 2013 Publication History

Abstract

In this study, we examine subjects' spatial orientation in a head--mounted display (HMD) based virtual environment (VE) when objects are placed at different vertical viewing angles. More specifically, we examine spatial orientation when subjects memorize the location of objects on the ground, at eyelevel, and up in the air. Interestingly, we found that spatial orientation was the same across all conditions. This finding is important because it informs researchers who use similar spatial orientation tasks that variations in viewing neck angle to targets is not necessarily an issue.

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Williams-Sanders BCarr TNarasimham GMcNamara TRieser JBodenheimer B(2019)Scaling Gain and Eyeheight While Locomoting in a Large VEVirtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Multimodal Interaction10.1007/978-3-030-21607-8_22(277-298)Online publication date: 8-Jun-2019
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21607-8_22

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Does neck viewing angle affect spatial orientation in an HMD-based VE?
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality

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SAP '13: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception

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DOI:10.1145/2492494

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Williams-Sanders BCarr TNarasimham GMcNamara TRieser JBodenheimer B(2019)Scaling Gain and Eyeheight While Locomoting in a Large VEVirtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Multimodal Interaction10.1007/978-3-030-21607-8_22(277-298)Online publication date: 8-Jun-2019
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