Spatial awareness in immersive virtual environments revealed in open-loop walking

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5666, Issue , 2005, Pages 416-423

  Turano, Kathleen A ^a   Chaudhury, Sidhartha ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Egocentric; Gender; Navigation; Path integration; Real world; Roelofs' illusion; Spatial awareness; Updating strategy; Virtual Environment

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; MOTION ESTIMATION; NAVIGATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EGOCENTRIC; GENDER; PATH INTEGRATION; REAL WORLD; ROELOFS' ILLUSION; SPATIAL AWARENESS; UPDATING STRATEGY;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 21944452544     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.610854     Document Type: Conference Paper

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