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The effect of navigation method and visual display on distance perception in a large-scale virtual building
Immersive virtual reality (VR) technology has become a popular method for fundamental and applied spatial cognition research. One challenge researchers face is emulating walking in a large-scale virtual space although the user is in fact in a small physical space. To address this, a variety of movem...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8179918/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33564939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10339-020-01011-4 |
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author | Li, Hengshan Mavros, Panagiotis Krukar, Jakub Hölscher, Christoph |
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description | Immersive virtual reality (VR) technology has become a popular method for fundamental and applied spatial cognition research. One challenge researchers face is emulating walking in a large-scale virtual space although the user is in fact in a small physical space. To address this, a variety of movement interfaces in VR have been proposed, from traditional joysticks to teleportation and omnidirectional treadmills. These movement methods tap into different mental processes of spatial learning during navigation, but their impacts on distance perception remain unclear. In this paper, we investigated the role of visual display, proprioception, and optic flow on distance perception in a large-scale building by manipulating four different movement methods. Eighty participants either walked in a real building, or moved through its virtual replica using one of three movement methods: VR-treadmill, VR-touchpad, and VR-teleportation. Results revealed that, first, visual display played a major role in both perceived and traversed distance estimates but did not impact environmental distance estimates. Second, proprioception and optic flow did not impact the overall accuracy of distance perception, but having only an intermittent optic flow (in the VR-teleportation movement method) impaired the precision of traversed distance estimates. In conclusion, movement method plays a significant role in distance perception but does not impact the configurational knowledge learned in a large-scale real and virtual building, and the VR-touchpad movement method provides an effective interface for navigation in VR. |
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spelling | pubmed-81799182021-06-17 The effect of navigation method and visual display on distance perception in a large-scale virtual building Li, Hengshan Mavros, Panagiotis Krukar, Jakub Hölscher, Christoph Cogn Process Research Article Immersive virtual reality (VR) technology has become a popular method for fundamental and applied spatial cognition research. One challenge researchers face is emulating walking in a large-scale virtual space although the user is in fact in a small physical space. To address this, a variety of movement interfaces in VR have been proposed, from traditional joysticks to teleportation and omnidirectional treadmills. These movement methods tap into different mental processes of spatial learning during navigation, but their impacts on distance perception remain unclear. In this paper, we investigated the role of visual display, proprioception, and optic flow on distance perception in a large-scale building by manipulating four different movement methods. Eighty participants either walked in a real building, or moved through its virtual replica using one of three movement methods: VR-treadmill, VR-touchpad, and VR-teleportation. Results revealed that, first, visual display played a major role in both perceived and traversed distance estimates but did not impact environmental distance estimates. Second, proprioception and optic flow did not impact the overall accuracy of distance perception, but having only an intermittent optic flow (in the VR-teleportation movement method) impaired the precision of traversed distance estimates. In conclusion, movement method plays a significant role in distance perception but does not impact the configurational knowledge learned in a large-scale real and virtual building, and the VR-touchpad movement method provides an effective interface for navigation in VR. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-02-09 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8179918/ /pubmed/33564939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10339-020-01011-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Article Li, Hengshan Mavros, Panagiotis Krukar, Jakub Hölscher, Christoph The effect of navigation method and visual display on distance perception in a large-scale virtual building |
title | The effect of navigation method and visual display on distance perception in a large-scale virtual building |
title_full | The effect of navigation method and visual display on distance perception in a large-scale virtual building |
title_fullStr | The effect of navigation method and visual display on distance perception in a large-scale virtual building |
title_full_unstemmed | The effect of navigation method and visual display on distance perception in a large-scale virtual building |
title_short | The effect of navigation method and visual display on distance perception in a large-scale virtual building |
title_sort | effect of navigation method and visual display on distance perception in a large-scale virtual building |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8179918/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33564939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10339-020-01011-4 |
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