Making first steps in VR: monitoring user progress in virtual travel

  • Authors:
  • Andrei Sherstyuk;Dale Vincent;Kin Lik Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Avatar Reality, Inc;University of Hawaii;University of Hawaii

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We propose a novel framework for monitoring and evaluating user travel activity in Virtual Reality (VR), in real time. Using this framework, we examined how users progressed in mastering two common travel techniques: steering and target-based relocation. We identified three groups of subjects with distinctly different learning patterns, which we called advancing, neutral and regressing learners. In this paper, we explain our evaluation method in detail, describe the experimental study, discuss the results and practical applications of our findings.