Conformal Redirected Walking for Shared Indoor Spaces

Y. Tomar , A. Srivastava , A. Dey , O. Sharma

VRCAI

Walking naturally in VR is difficult when two people in separate physical rooms share one virtual space. This paper presents a redirected-walking scheme that merges a 'guest' room into a 'host' room by warping the guest space with a conformal mapping that preserves local shape and features. Compared with state-of-the-art indoor redirection, it delivered better task performance, higher social presence, and less simulator sickness.

@inproceedings{tomar2019,
  author    = {Y. Tomar and A. Srivastava and A. Dey and O. Sharma},
  title     = {Conformal Redirected Walking for Shared Indoor Spaces},
  booktitle = {VRCAI},
  pages     = {17:1-17:8},
  doi       = {10.1145/3359997.3365702},
  year      = {2019}
}