The redirected walking toolkit: A unified development platform for exploring large virtual environments

Mahdi Azmandian; Timofey Grechkin; Mark Bolas; Evan Suma

doi:10.1109/WEVR.2016.7859537

The redirected walking toolkit: A unified development platform for exploring large virtual environments

Mahdi Azmandian, Timofey Grechkin, Mark Bolas, Evan Suma

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Abstract

With the imminent emergence of low-cost tracking solutions, everyday VR users will soon experience the enhanced immersion of natural walking. Even with consumer-grade room-scale tracking, exploring large virtual environments can be made possible using a software solution known as redirected walking. Wide adoption of this technique has been hindered by the complexity and subtleties involved in successfully deploying redirection. To address this matter, we introduce the Redirected Walking Toolkit, to serve as a unified platform for developing, benchmarking, and deploying redirected walking algorithms. Our design enables seamless integration with standard virtual reality configurations, requiring minimal setup effort for content developers. The toolkit's flexible architecture offers an interface that is not only easy to extend, but also complimented with a suite of simulation tools for testing and analysis. We envision the Redirected Walking Toolkit to be a common testbed for VR researchers as well as a publicly-available tool for large virtual exploration in virtual reality applications.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2016 IEEE 2nd Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality, WEVR 2016
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	9-14
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509008407
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WEVR.2016.7859537
State	Published - Feb 21 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	2nd IEEE Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality, WEVR 2016 - Greenville, United States Duration: Mar 20 2016 → …

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Name	2016 IEEE 2nd Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality, WEVR 2016
Volume	2017-January

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Conference	2nd IEEE Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality, WEVR 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Greenville
Period	3/20/16 → …

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H.5.1 [Information interfaces and presentation]: Multimedia information systems-artificial, augmented and virtual realities
I.3.6 [Computer graphics]: Methodology and techniques-interaction techniques
I.3.7 [Computer graphics]: Three-dimensional graphics and realism-virtual reality

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Azmandian, M., Grechkin, T., Bolas, M., & Suma, E. (2017). The redirected walking toolkit: A unified development platform for exploring large virtual environments. In 2016 IEEE 2nd Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality, WEVR 2016 (pp. 9-14). (2016 IEEE 2nd Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality, WEVR 2016; Vol. 2017-January). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/WEVR.2016.7859537

The redirected walking toolkit: A unified development platform for exploring large virtual environments. / Azmandian, Mahdi; Grechkin, Timofey; Bolas, Mark et al.
2016 IEEE 2nd Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality, WEVR 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. p. 9-14 (2016 IEEE 2nd Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality, WEVR 2016; Vol. 2017-January).

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Azmandian, M, Grechkin, T, Bolas, M & Suma, E 2017, The redirected walking toolkit: A unified development platform for exploring large virtual environments. in 2016 IEEE 2nd Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality, WEVR 2016. 2016 IEEE 2nd Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality, WEVR 2016, vol. 2017-January, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 9-14, 2nd IEEE Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality, WEVR 2016, Greenville, United States, 3/20/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/WEVR.2016.7859537

Azmandian M, Grechkin T, Bolas M, Suma E. The redirected walking toolkit: A unified development platform for exploring large virtual environments. In 2016 IEEE 2nd Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality, WEVR 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2017. p. 9-14. (2016 IEEE 2nd Workshop on Everyday Virtual Reality, WEVR 2016). doi: 10.1109/WEVR.2016.7859537

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