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Evaluating Automatic Parameter Control Methods for Locomotion in Multiscale Virtual Environments

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Wolfgang StuerzlingerAuthors Info & Claims

VRST '20: Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

Article No.: 11, Pages 1 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/3385956.3418961

Published: 01 November 2020 Publication History

Abstract

Virtual environments with a wide range of scales are becoming commonplace in Virtual Reality applications. Methods to control locomotion parameters can help users explore such environments more easily. For multi-scale virtual environments, point-and-teleport locomotion with a well-designed distance control method can enable mid-air teleportation, which makes it competitive to flying interfaces. Yet, automatic distance control for point-and-teleport has not been studied in such environments. We present a new method to automatically control the distance for point-and-teleport. In our first user study, we used a solar system environment to compare three methods: automatic distance control for point-and-teleport, manual distance control for point-and-teleport, and automatic speed control for flying. Results showed that automatic control significantly reduces overshoot compared with manual control for point-and-teleport, but the discontinuous nature of teleportation made users prefer flying with automatic speed control. We conducted a second study to compare automatic-speed-controlled flying and two versions of our teleportation method with automatic distance control, one incorporating optical flow cues. We found that point-and-teleport with optical flow cues and automatic distance control was more accurate than flying with automatic speed control, and both were equally preferred to point-and-teleport without the cues.

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VRST '20: Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

November 2020

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ISBN:9781450376198

DOI:10.1145/3385956

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Robert J. Teather
Carleton University, Canada
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Chris Joslin
Carleton University, Canada
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Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
Simon Fraser University, Canada
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Pablo Figueroa
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
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Yaoping Hu
University of Calgary, Canada
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Anil Ufuk Batmaz
Simon Fraser University, Canada
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University of Ottawa, Canada
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Colorado State University, USA

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