Biological Cybernetics
Walking walking-in-place flying, in virtual environments
Proceedings of the 26th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Visual homing is possible without landmarks: a path integration study in virtual reality
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Walking About Virtual Environments on an Infinite Floor
VR '99 Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality
Procedural modeling of buildings
ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Papers
Obstacle avoidance during walking in real and virtual environments
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
Step frequency and perceived self-motion
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
Toward systematic control of cybersickness
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Path Reproduction Tests Using a Torus Treadmill
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Inertial-Force Feedback for the Treadport Locomotion Interface
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
The benefits of using a walking interface to navigate virtual environments
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
On virtual environments and agents in next-generation computer games
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Comparison of three motion cueing algorithms for curve driving in an urban environment
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Making virtual walking real: Perceptual evaluation of a new treadmill control algorithm
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
Future Generation Computer Systems
Control design and experimental evaluation of the 2D cyber walk platform
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
Walking improves your cognitive map in environments that are large-scale and large in extent
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception
Virtual experience system for a digital museum
HCI'13 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human Interface and the Management of Information: information and interaction for learning, culture, collaboration and business - Volume Part III
Towards enabling more effective locomotion in VR using a wheelchair-based motion platform
JVRC '13 Proceedings of the 5th Joint Virtual Reality Conference
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Despite many recent developments in virtual reality, an effective locomotion interface which allows for normal walking through large virtual environments was until recently still lacking. Here, we describe the new CyberWalk omnidirectional treadmill system, which makes it possible for users to walk endlessly in any direction, while never leaving the confines of the limited walking surface. The treadmill system improves on previous designs, both in its mechanical features and in the control system employed to keep users close to the center of the treadmill. As a result, users are able to start walking, vary their walking speed and direction, and stop walking as they would on a normal, stationary surface. The treadmill system was validated in two experiments, in which both the walking behavior and the performance in a basic spatial updating task were compared to that during normal overground walking. The results suggest that walking on the CyberWalk treadmill is very close to normal walking, especially after some initial familiarization. Moreover, we did not find a detrimental effect of treadmill walking in the spatial updating task. The CyberWalk system constitutes a significant step forward to bringing the real world into the laboratory or workplace.