Navigating Large-Scale Virtual Environments: What Differences Occur Between Helmet-Mounted and Desk-Top Displays?

Ruddle, Roy A., Payne, Stephen J. and Jones, Dylan Marc ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8783-5542 1999. Navigating Large-Scale Virtual Environments: What Differences Occur Between Helmet-Mounted and Desk-Top Displays? Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 8 (2) , pp. 157-168. 10.1162/105474699566143

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Abstract

Participants used a helmet-mounted display (HMD) and a desk-top (monitor) display to learn the layouts of two large-scale virtual environments (VEs) through repeated, direct navigational experience. Both VEs were “virtual buildings” containing more than seventy rooms. Participants using the HMD navigated the buildings significantly more quickly and developed a significantly more accurate sense of relative straight-line distance. There was no significant difference between the two types of display in terms of the distance that participants traveled or the mean accuracy of their direction estimates. Behavioral analyses showed that participants took advantage of the natural, head-tracked interface provided by the HMD in ways that included “looking around” more often while traveling through the VEs, and spending less time stationary in the VEs while choosing a direction in which to travel.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
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Publisher:	MIT Press
ISSN:	1054-7460
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	05 Jan 2024 03:29
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/35441

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