VR Locomotion & Avatars with Microsoft Research - XR Bootcamp Open Lecture
Channel: XR Bootcamp
Date: 2021-02-12

🌌 Learn how to navigate between the reality and the virtual world within VR as Avatars.

This open Lecture Series by XR Bootcamp introduces VR Locomotion & Avatars with Microsoft's Senior Researcher, Mar Gonzalez Franco!

🕹️ VR locomotion is still one of the unsolved frontiers in virtual reality. Dr. Gonzalez-Franco reviews the many possible options and techniques to implement and bridge the gap between reality and virtual world navigation. While some techniques are more accessible than others, nausea levels may become an issue with some of them.

💡Important ideas & tips discussed:
►Locomotion and VR Motion Sickness
►How to interface large VR spaces in restricted physical areas
►Making Avatars key to Locomotion
►Techniques to create mental maps for users.
►Newest techniques on game design implementations.

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📣 Speakers:
Mar Gonzalez Franco, EPIC (Extended Perception Interaction and Cognition) Principal Researcher at Microsoft
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⌚  Timestamps
0:00 XR Bootcamp Introduction
13:16 Keynote Speech: VR Locomotion & Avatars
17:15 Haptics Devices: Torc, Capstan Crunch, Pivot
20:50 Avatars (Assets) 
27:35 Distance Compression
30:00 Locomotion Vault
33:30 Taxonomies 
35:00 Spatial Awareness
38:59 Type of Locomotion 
47:37 Fun Top 5 Crazy LTs
53:08 Roundtable Discussion

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