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Travel Robert W. Lindeman Worcester Polytechnic Institute - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Travel Robert W. Lindeman Worcester Polytechnic Institute - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
CS-525V: Building Effective Virtual Worlds Travel Robert W. Lindeman Worcester Polytechnic Institute Department of Computer Science gogo@wpi.edu Overview Travel Getting from one place to another Wayfinding Means knowing
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Travel: Key Research Problems
Limited physical space, possibly infinite virtual
space
Think Holodeck
Different types of travel
Walking, running, turning, side stepping, back
stepping, crawling, quick start/stop, ...
Need to do other things while traveling
Usually, travel is not the goal of your current task
It is very easy to get (cognitively) lost in virtual
reality
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Support for General Walking
Multi-sensory cues
Visual Auditory Tactile Kinesthetic Vestibular Cognitive
Each technique used for travel has more
- r less support for each of these
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Overview of Travel Approaches
Gestural
Hand Head Foot (walking in place) Body (real walking, re-directed walking)
Device
Hand-held devices (joystick, gamepad, 2D
mouse)
Platforms
Passive (tilt, pressure, VirtuSphere) Active (treadmills, steppers, CirculaFloor)
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Gestures for Travel
Hand typically... Head...
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Gestures (cont.)
Walking in place (Gaiter [Templeman])
Forward/backward/side-step gestures Go prone, run, small real steps
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Gestures (cont.)
Redirected walking (UNC-CH)
(movie)
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Devices
Hand-held
Mouse, joystick, gamepad, Wiimote, etc.
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Platforms
Passive
Tilt boards Wii Fit
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Platforms (cont.)
VirtuSphere
(movie)
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Platforms (cont.)
Virtual Perambulator (Iwata 1996)
(movie)
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Platforms (cont.)
Torus Treadmill
(Iwata 1999)
(movie)
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Platforms (cont.)
GaitMaster
(Iwata 2000)
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Platforms (cont.)
Powered Shoes
(Iwata 2006)
(movie)
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Platforms (cont.)
String Walker
(Iwata 2007)
(movie was too big!)
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