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Human Following Behavior In Virtual Reality

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Anh Nguyen,

Pascal Wüest,

Andreas KunzAuthors Info & Claims

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

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3385956.3422099

Published: 01 November 2020 Publication History

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Redirected Walking (RDW) allows users to perform real walking in virtual worlds that are larger than the available physical space. Many RDW algorithms rely on the prediction of users’ possible paths in the virtual environment (VE) to calculate where users should be redirected to. This prediction could be obtained from the structure of the VE, where users look, or from existing path models. In this work, we examine users’ walking behaviors in the presence of a virtual agent acting as a tour guide. Results showed that users changed their speed significantly to match the agent’s walking speed. Furthermore, users also tend to adapt their trajectories to match with the agent’s path.

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DOI:10.1145/3385956

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