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Paper: c441
Paper title: Towards Naturalistic Navigation Metaphors for large scale Virtual Environments [Hacia metáforas naturalistas de la navegación para ambientes virtuales de gran escala]
Authors: Knight, Mike W. and Brown, André
Summary: This paper looks at the background to the development of alternative interfaces to Virtual Environments and suggests a reappraisal of some of the early work which allowed a sense of presence in the ‚real’ world. Initial work, the virtual exercise bike, is appraised, and new work is described which further develops the development of a low-cost interface system. Work in progress is described which is a combination of hard- and software. The solution described is a ‚hands free’ interface enabling the user to experience a VE in a similar manner to a physical environment, using movements of the head and feet for navigation. Whilst this is possible using expensive, proprietary equipment, the presented solution concentrates on a low cost approach. In line with this, the system uses a low cost gaming environment which is described and evaluated.
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Year of publication: 2000
Series: CUMINCADes:SIGRADI
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Citation: Knight, Mike W. and Brown, André (2000). Towards Naturalistic Navigation Metaphors for large scale Virtual Environments [Hacia metáforas naturalistas de la navegación para ambientes virtuales de gran escala]. SIGraDi’2000 - Construindo (n)o espacio digital (constructing the digital Space) [4th SIGRADI Conference Proceedings / ISBN 85-88027-02-X] Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 25-28 september 2000, pp. 247-250, http://itc.scix.net/paper/c441
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