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Developing immersive Virtual Reality (VR) systems that simulate natural walking experiences in constrained physical spaces remains a challenge. This paper introduces SkiWalkerVR, a novel VR walking system that predicts and replicates head and foot ...

This poster explores the potential of Cybershoes, a foot-based consumer input device, used with a swivel chair to enable seated walking-in-place (WIP) locomotion in virtual reality (VR). Through a qualitative study with 12 participants, we investigated ...

Fade-to-black animations are a commonly used technique to visualize transitions during teleportation. However, their duration varies across different implementations and has not been extensively researched. This abstract details a study design to ...

In this abstract, we discuss the demand for replication and extension efforts related to two seminal studies focused on virtual reality (VR) locomotion interfaces, initially centered around a VR implementation of the Visual Cliff, often referred to as ...

In virtual reality, redirected walking lets users walk in larger virtual spaces than the physical tracking space set aside for their movements. This benefits immersion and spatial navigation compared to virtual locomotion techniques such as ...

Providing convincing proprioceptive cues is essential for immersive virtual reality (VR) navigation. However, this is challenging for seated users with restricted mobility. To address this gap, this study proposes LegSense, a method designed to induce ...

Teleportation has been adopted as the preferred mode of navigation in many virtual reality (VR) experiences due to its ability to allow users to easily move beyond the limitations of the tracking space while minimizing the risk of inducing VR sickness. ...

This paper presents an overview of human-machine interfaces for walking in virtual reality (VR) and the results of the online survey in which 30 experienced VR users were asked to identify important design aspects and preferable types of ...

Locomotion is an important task in many virtual reality (VR) applications. Locomotion requires two different directional settings for: (1) translation to a target, and (2) body rotation. Conventional locomotion methods mostly make use of the hand-held ...

This study examines the feasibility of user-applied active locomotion in In-Car Virtual Reality (VR), overcoming the passivity in mobility of previous In-Car VR experiences where the virtual movement was synchronized with the real movement of the car. ...

Rowing has great potential in Virtual Reality (VR) exergames as it requires physical effort and uses physical motion to map the locomotion in a virtual space. However, rowing in VR is currently restricted to locomotion along one axis, leaving 2D and 3D ...

Physical interaction can provide users with engaging experiences and more healthy active interfaces. In virtual environments, physical interaction can be used for locomotion purposes in which the user’s physical actions are mapped to virtual ...

Rowing has great potential in Virtual Reality (VR) exergames as it requires physical effort and uses physical motion to map the locomotion in a virtual space. However, rowing in VR is currently restricted to locomotion along one axis, leaving 2D and 3D ...

Walking-based locomotion techniques in virtual reality (VR) can use redirection to enable walking in a virtual environment larger than the physical one. This results in a mismatch between the perceived virtual and physical movement, which is known to ...

Gesture-based control in virtual reality applications provides a more natural interaction but at the same time brings about new challenges in regards to implementing actions such as locomotion. In an effort to maintain a user-driven approach to the ...

Little research has studied how people use Virtual Reality (VR) changes as they experience VR. This article reports the results of an experiment investigating how users’ behavior with two locomotion methods changed over 4 weeks: teleportation and joystick-...

The Shooting-Based Technique (SBT) is a highly interactive locomotion method in virtual reality (VR) that enables user navigation through simulated shooting actions. SBT has already been used in a commercialized product and offers users a novel ...

Locomotion systems that allow the user to interact with large virtual spaces require precise input, competing with the same inputs available for performing a task in the virtual world. Despite extensive research on hand tracking input modalities, there ...

Virtual Reality (VR) games and experiences predominantly have the users interact while standing or seated. However, this only represents a fraction of the full diversity of human movement. In this paper, we explore a novel non-standing approach to VR ...

Virtual Reality (VR) headsets equipped with multiple cameras enable hands-only teleportation techniques without requiring any physical controller. Hands-only teleportation is an effective alternative to controllers for navigation tasks in virtual ...