Comparing Teleportation Methods for Travel in Everyday Virtual Reality
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Department
Computer Science
Conference Title
Proceedings - 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, VRW 2022
Date of Presentation
1-1-2022
Abstract
The number of everyday virtual reality (VR) applications is increasing at a remarkable pace. Perhaps the most fundamental interaction in these applications is the ability to travel throughout virtual environments in which users find themselves immersed. Teleportation is often used to support travel in VR applications. While many methods exist for implementing teleportation, relatively little research has been done to compare such methods. In this paper, we describe an experiment to compare four teleportation methods for travel in everyday virtual reality. We found that, for general use, experienced VR users prefer to control a virtual arc with their hand to indicate the location and direction of orientation to which they want to teleport. However, teleporting a single step at a time in the direction of view may support more natural movement and encourage shorter travel paths, but at the expense of longer travel times.
First Page
238
Last Page
242
DOI
10.1109/VRW55335.2022.00056
Recommended Citation
Lesaca, D.,
Cheung, H.,
Jena, T.,
&
Cliburn, D. C.
(2022).
Comparing Teleportation Methods for Travel in Everyday Virtual Reality.
Paper presented at Proceedings - 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, VRW 2022.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/soecs-facpres/373
