Redirected Walking in Place

Razzaque, Sharif; Swapp, David; Slater, Mel; Whitton, Mary C.; Steed, Anthony

Redirected Walking in Place

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Date

2002

Authors

Razzaque, Sharif
Swapp, David
Slater, Mel
Whitton, Mary C.
Steed, Anthony

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

This paper describes a method for allowing people to virtually move around a CAVE without ever having to turn to face the missing back wall. We describe the method, and report a pilot study of 28 participants, half of whom moved through the virtual world using a hand-held controller, and the other half used the new technique called Redirected Walking in Place (RWP). The results show that the current instantiation of the RWP technique does not result in a lower frequency of looking towards the missing wall. However, the results also show that the sense of presence in the virtual environment is significantly and negatively correlated with the amount that the back wall is seen. There is evidence that RWP does reduce the chance of seeing the blank wall for some participants. The increased sense of presence through never having to face the blank wall, and the results of this pilot study show the RWP has promise and merits further development.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/EGVE/EGVE02/123-130
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments
},
editor = {S. Mueller and W. Stuerzlinger
},
title = {{Redirected Walking in Place
}},
author = {Razzaque, Sharif and 
Swapp, David and 
Slater, Mel and 
Whitton, Mary C. and 
Steed, Anthony
},
year = {2002
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-530X
},
ISBN = {1-58113-535-1
},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGVE/EGVE02/123-130
}
}