Seven league boots: A new metaphor for augmented locomotion through moderately large scale immersive virtual environments

IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2007 - Proceedings, 3DUI 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 167-170

  Interrante, Victoria ^a   Ries, Brian ^a   Anderson, Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Immersive virtual environments; Locomotion; Spatial perception

Indexed keywords

3D USER INTERFACES; ALTERNATIVE METHODS; HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; LOCOMOTION; NORMAL WALKING; NOVEL METHODS; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCES; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; SPATIAL PERCEPTION; TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT;

BIOMECHANICS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SOLUTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 36849090875     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/3DUI.2007.340791     Document Type: Conference Paper

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