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Acoustical manipulation for redirected walking

Published: 08 November 2017 Publication History

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Redirected Walking (RDW) manipulates a scene that is displayed to VR users so that they unknowingly compensate for scene motion and can thus explore a large virtual world on a limited space. So far, mostly visual manipulation techniques have been studied.
This paper shows that users can also be manipulated by means of acoustical signals. In an experiment with a dynamically moving audio source we see deviations of up to 30% from a 20 m long straight-line walk for male participants and of up to 25% for females. Static audio has about two thirds of this impact.

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VRST '17: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
November 2017
437 pages
ISBN:9781450355483
DOI:10.1145/3139131
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Published: 08 November 2017

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  1. motion perception
  2. redirected walking
  3. spatial audio
  4. virtual locomotion
  5. virtual reality

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  • Bavarian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology and the Embedded Systems Initiative (ESI)

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