VR salsa: learning to dance in virtual reality

VR Salsa is a virtual reality environment designed to teach users to dance salsa so they can memorize the basic steps and execute them naturally inside a sequence. This is accomplished through the visual representation of the basic steps using an avatar and spherical volumes that describe the movements the feet should follow. We show how previous work on motor learning can be applied to this field. The result is an interface that successfully teaches basic salsa dance moves, that is both comfortable and entertaining according to users.