Microsoft Research Blog
Giant steps and liberating spaces – Virtual Reality is making cool moves
Cool innovations are happening in how virtual reality researchers are resolving natural locomotion challenges and how they relate to story space, as well as in liberating users from the small, object-free player settings of today,…
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I am a Giant: Walking in Large Virtual Environments at High Speed Gains
Advances in tracking technology and wireless headsets enable walking as a means of locomotion in Virtual Reality. When exploring virtual environments larger than room-scale, it is often desirable to increase users’ perceived walking speed, for…
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VRoamer
Generating On The Fly VR Experiences While Walking Inside Large, Unknown Real-World Building Environments VRoamer is a novel proof of concept system that enables a user to play a virtual reality game, by walking freely…