How can I get there? Disorientation and motion sickness effects depending on the virtual reality navigation technique
Author
Domenech Lopez, Marc
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2020
Pages
45
Abstract
Navigation in virtual reality is present in every application. Users need to move around the virtual environment in a user-friendly, intuitive and motion-sickness free way. Nonetheless, the diverse applications offered by this technology result in different virtual environments with different requirements in each case. To fulfill these requirements and give the user a better experience the selection of an appropriate technique is important in every case. For this reason, there is not a locomotion technique free of dis- orientation and motion sickness symptoms in different environments. With the aim of finding the appropriate navigation method in big virtual environments, three methods are com- pared against each other: teleportation, World in Miniature (WIM) and drone navigation. A task of navigating to a specified target and then finding another one suggested that the WIM technique could reduce motion sick- ness and disorientation in these kind of environments.
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