Spatial updating in virtual reality for reproducing object locations in vista space-Boundaries, landmarks, and idiothetic cues.

ABSTRACT: Keeping track of locations across self-motion is possible by continuously updating spatial representations or by encoding and later instantaneously retrieving spatial representations. In virtual reality (VR), sensory cues to self-motion used in continuous updating are typically reduced. In passive translation compared to real walking in VR, optic flow is available but body-based (idiothetic) cues are missing. With both kinds of translation, boundaries and landmarks as static visual cues can be used for instantaneous updating. In two experiments, we let participants encode two target locations, one of which had to be reproduced by pointing after forward translation in immersive VR (HMD). We increased sensory cues to self-motion in comparison to passive translation either by strengthening op

SUBMITTER: Borodaeva Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10325663 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature