WARAJI: foot-driven navigation interfaces for virtual reality applications

  • Authors:

  • Salvador Barrera;Piperakis Romanos;Suguru Saito;Hiroki Takahashi;Masayuki Nakajima

  • Affiliations:

  • Nakajima Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Japan;Nakajima Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Japan;Nakajima Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Japan;Nakajima Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Japan;Nakajima Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Japan

  • Venue:
  • PCM'04 Proceedings of the 5th Pacific Rim conference on Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Presently Technological limitations on current interfaces have made researchers to develop new devices to interact with objects in the virtual environment. The goal of this project is to develop and build a hands-free navigation system to be integrated into virtual environments. One of the most important fields in virtual realty (VR) research, is the development of systems that allow the user to interface with the virtual environment. The most intuitive method for moving through a virtual landscape is by walking. Systems ranging from different platforms have already been implemented to produce virtual walking; however, these systems have been designed primarily for use with head mounted display systems. We believe that hands-free navigation, unlike the majority of navigation techniques based on hand motions, has the greatest potential for maximizing the interactivity of virtual environments, due to more direct motion of the feet.