Effect of Sense of Embodiment on Curvature Redirected Walking Thresholds
Anh The Nguyen, Yannick Rothacher, Bigna Lenggenhager, Peter Brugger, Andreas M. Kunz · 2020
Redirected walking (RDW) allows users to explore a virtual environment larger than the physical tracking space by real walking. When RDW is applied within certain thresholds, users do not notice it and remain immersed in the virtual environment. There are many factors that affect these thresholds such as walking speed, gender, and field of view. However, redirected walking thresholds (RDTs) were never studied when an avatar is present, and it is not known how the sense of embodiment over this avatar affects users’ RDTs.