A Taxonomy for Designing Walking-based Locomotion Techniques for Virtual Reality

Abstract

Designers have yet to find a fully general and effective solution to solve the problem of walking in large or unlimited virtual environments. A detailed taxonomy of walking-based locomotion techniques would be beneficial to better understand, analyze, and design walking techniques for virtual reality (VR). We present a taxonomy that can help designers and researchers investigate the fundamental components of locomotion techniques. Researchers can create novel locomotion techniques by making choices from the components of this taxonomy, analyze and improve existing techniques, or perform experiments to evaluate locomotion techniques in detail using the organization we present.