Exploiting change blindness to expand walkable space in a virtual environment

Evan A. Suma, Seth Clark, Samantha L. Finkelstein, Zachary Wartell
2010 2010 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (VR)  
We present a technique for exploiting change blindness to allow the user to walk through an immersive virtual environment that is much larger than the available physical workspace. This approach relies on subtle manipulations to the geometry of a dynamic environment model to redirect the user's walking path without becoming noticeable. We describe a virtual environment which was implemented both as a proof-of-concept and a test case for future evaluation. Anecdotal evidence from our informal
more » ... ts suggest a compelling illusion, though a formal study against existing methods is required to evaluate the usefulness of this technique.
doi:10.1109/vr.2010.5444752 dblp:conf/vr/SumaCFW10 fatcat:rjnx4cjrmvbqzdfqr5xoyrowju