Getting around in Google Cardboard - exploring navigation preferences with low cost mobile VR

Wendy Anne Powell; Vaughan Powell; Phillip  Brown; Marc  Cook; Jahangir Uddin

doi:10.1109/WEVR.2016.7859536

Getting around in Google Cardboard - exploring navigation preferences with low cost mobile VR

Wendy Anne Powell, Vaughan Powell, Phillip Brown, Marc Cook, Jahangir Uddin

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In recent years there has been a paradigm shift in the uptake and use of Virtual Reality (VR). Advances in graphics rendering, and the introduction of low-cost VR headsets has bought VR into the reach of ordinary consumers. Google Cardboard VR viewers cost just a few dollars and work with most smart phones, enabling mobile VR to truly enter the domain of the everyday. However, these headsets are currently generally used for passive entertainment or viewing 360 degree media, and are not ideally suited to active exploration of a virtual space. In this paper we present our preliminary evaluation of three approaches to travel and navigation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE 2nd Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality (WEVR 2016)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	5-8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5090-0840-7
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5090-0841-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WEVR.2016.7859536
Publication status	Published - 13 Feb 2017
Event	2016 IEEE 2nd Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality - Greenville, SC, United States Duration: 19 Mar 2016 → 23 Mar 2016

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Conference	2016 IEEE 2nd Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality
Abbreviated title	WEVR 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Greenville, SC
Period	19/03/16 → 23/03/16

Keywords

Interaction
travel techniques
HMD
mobile VR
Google Cardboard
navigation

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Getting Around in Google Cardboard - Exploring Navigation Preferences with Low-Cost mobile VR
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Powell, WA, Powell, V, Brown, P, Cook, M & Uddin, J 2017, Getting around in Google Cardboard - exploring navigation preferences with low cost mobile VR. in Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE 2nd Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality (WEVR 2016). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 5-8, 2016 IEEE 2nd Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality , Greenville, SC, United States, 19/03/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/WEVR.2016.7859536

Getting around in Google Cardboard - exploring navigation preferences with low cost mobile VR. / Powell, Wendy Anne; Powell, Vaughan; Brown, Phillip et al.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE 2nd Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality (WEVR 2016). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. p. 5-8.

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