Redirected Walking in Overlapping Rooms

Abstract

Walking in larger virtual environments than the physical one can lead to collisions with physical boundaries. Multiple locomotion techniques like Redirected Walking (RDW) and Overlapping Architecture (OA) aim to overcome this limitation. Combining these two has yet to be investigated in large physical spaces with resets. In this work, a hybrid locomotion method was implemented that combines RDW and OA. A user study was conducted where participants collected items in a virtual environment with multiple rooms. The study showed that the distance walked between resets was increased substantially, thus showing the solid advantages of combining OA and RDW.