What we did:We introduced and evaluated three point & teleport locomotion techniques for Virtual Reality that allow users to specify the target orientation in addition to the target position.
What we found:We found that while the techniques with orientation indication increased the average teleportation time, they significantly reduced the need for correcting the user’s orientation after teleportation.
Takeaway:We recommend that designers of Virtual Reality environments implement a teleportation method with orientation indication to enable more accurate navigation, despite the potential increase in time required for each teleport.
Abstract
Room-scale Virtual Reality (VR) systems have arrived in users’ homes where tracked environments are set up in limited physical spaces. As most Virtual Environments (VEs) are larger than the tracked physical space, locomotion techniques are used to navigate in VEs. Currently, in recent VR games, point & teleport is the most popular locomotion technique. However, it only allows users to select the position of the teleportation and not the orientation that the user is facing after the teleport. This results in users having to manually correct their orientation after teleporting and possibly getting entangled by the cable of the headset. In this paper, we introduce and evaluate three different point & teleport techniques that enable users to specify the target orientation while teleporting. The results show that, although the three teleportation techniques with orientation indication increase the average teleportation time, they lead to a decreased need for correcting the orientation after teleportation.
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We built and evaluated nine novel locomotion concepts for foot-based teleportation in Virtual Reality, using the 3D position and pressure of the user's feet as input modalities.
