The Visual Cliff Revisited: A Virtual Presence Study on Locomotion
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This paper presents a study on the influence of locomotion technique on presence in immersive virtual environments (VE). It is a largely extended study to an experiment conducted by Slater (1995) with groups of subjects who explore a virtual environment either by hand navigation or by walking in place, i.e. reproducing naturalistic movements similar to real walking. Naturalistic is considered here to be actions that maintain the proprioceptive/sensory data loop – the (proprioceptive) movements of the body are congruent with the (sensory) optic flow data as the participant is translated in VE. We replicate this experiment adding an additional group who move through the VE by actually walking. We provide a comparison with the original study as well as an enhanced analysis using new criteria.
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