Travel in Immersive Virtual Environments: An Evaluation of Viewpoint Motion Control Techniques

  • Authors:
  • Doug A. Bowman;David Koller;Larry F. Hodges

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VRAIS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium (VRAIS '97)
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

We present a categorization of techniques for first-person motion control, or travel, through immersive virtual environments, as well as a framework for evaluating the quality of different techniques for specific virtual environment tasks. We conduct three quantitative experiments within this framework: a comparison of different techniques for moving directly to a target object varying in size and distance, a comparison of different techniques for moving relative to a reference object, and a comparison of different motion techniques and their resulting sense of "disorientation" in the user. Results indicate that "pointing" techniques are advantageous relative to "gaze-directed" steering techniques for a relative motion task, and that motion techniques which instantly teleport users to new locations are correlated with increased user disorientation.