Dr. Y Raghu Reddy, Dr. Syed Azeemuddin and their students Y Pawan Kumar Gururaj, Raghav Mittal and Sai Anirudh Karre, presented a poster paper on Towards Conducting Effective Locomotion Through Hardware Transformation in Head-Mounted-Device – A Review Study at IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (IEEEVR 2022) from 12 – 16 March. Y Pawan Kumar Gururaj made the poster presentation.
Research work as explained by the authors:
Locomotion in Virtual Reality (VR) acts as a motion tracking unit for simulating user movements based on the Degree-of-Freedom (DOF) of the application. For effective locomotion, VR practitioners may have to transform their hardware from 3-DOF to 6-DOF. In this context, we conducted a literature review on different motion tracking methods employed in the Head-Mounted-Devices (HMD) to understand such hardware transformation to conduct locomotion in VR. Our observations led us to formulate a taxonomy of the tracking methods for locomotion in VR based on system design. Our study also captures different metrics that VR practitioners use to evaluate the hardware based on the context, performance, and significance for conducting locomotion.
The IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR) is the premier international event for the presentation of research results in the broad areas of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/XR). Since 1993, IEEE VR has presented groundbreaking research and accomplishments by virtual reality pioneers: scientists, engineers, designers, and artists, paving the way for the future. Soon, IEEE VR expanded its scope to also include augmented, mixed, and other forms of mediated reality. Similarly, the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI), which started as a workshop at IEEE VR in 2004, has become the premier venue for 3D user interfaces and 3D interaction in virtual environments. In 2018, VR and 3DUI were merged into the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, with the short name IEEE VR. In 2020, VR was the first major IEEE conference to be held entirely online and in a virtual environment.
Conference page: https://ieeevr.org/2022/