Gain compensation in redirected walking
Anh The Nguyen, Federico Cervellati, Andreas M. Kunz · 2017
Redirected Walking Techniques (RWTs) enable a user to immersively explore a virtual environment larger than the available physical space by real walking. RWTs are based on the use of gains (translational, rotational and curvature), which introduce a mismatch between the virtual and physical trajectories. When these gains are applied within certain thresholds, the "manipulation" is unnoticeable and immersion is maintained. Numerous research has been carried out to identify these thresholds and factors that affect them such as walking speed, environment structure or tasks involved. However, it has not been known whether users change their walking behavior when RWTs are applied and if this in turn influences ftheir perception thresholds.