A virtual reality control method, comprising: displaying, by a head-mounted VR device (518, 602, 702) a VR environment (102, 400 the VR environment presented from a first-person perspective in the VR environment that is defined with respect to a reference frame (202, 308, 402, 530) in the VR environment, and a graphical indicator (112, 316, 408, 552, 616) of a current real-world position (302a-f, 602, 630) of the head-mounted VR device with respect to a real-world reference position (304, 520, 604), wherein the graphical indicator tracks the perspective during movement of the perspective to remain displayed during the movement of the perspective; determining a velocity of the reference frame based on a displacement between the current real-world position and the real-world reference position; and translating the reference frame in the VR environment at the velocity, wherein the graphical indicator comprises a feature (318, 414, 544) that indicates a direction of the velocity (314b-f, 536a) with respect to an orientation of the perspective (312a-f), wherein the orientation of the perspective is based on a real-world orientation of the head-mounted VR device, and wherein the feature moves based on changes in the orientation of the perspective, such that the feature indicates the direction of the velocity independent of the changes in the orientation of the perspective. displaying, by a head-mounted VR device (518, 602, 702) a VR environment (102, 400 the VR environment presented from a first-person perspective in the VR environment that is defined with respect to a reference frame (202, 308, 402, 530) in the VR environment, and a graphical indicator (112, 316, 408, 552, 616) of a current real-world position (302a-f, 602, 630) of the head-mounted VR device with respect to a real-world reference position (304, 520, 604), wherein the graphical indicator tracks the perspective during movement of the perspective to remain displayed during the movement of the perspective; a VR environment (102, 400 the VR environment presented from a first-person perspective in the VR environment that is defined with respect to a reference frame (202, 308, 402, 530) in the VR environment, and a graphical indicator (112, 316, 408, 552, 616) of a current real-world position (302a-f, 602, 630) of the head-mounted VR device with respect to a real-world reference position (304, 520, 604), wherein the graphical indicator tracks the perspective during movement of the perspective to remain displayed during the movement of the perspective; determining a velocity of the reference frame based on a displacement between the current real-world position and the real-world reference position; and translating the reference frame in the VR environment at the velocity, wherein the graphical indicator comprises a feature (318, 414, 544) that indicates a direction of the velocity (314b-f, 536a) with respect to an orientation of the perspective (312a-f), wherein the orientation of the perspective is based on a real-world orientation of the head-mounted VR device, and wherein the feature moves based on changes in the orientation of the perspective, such that the feature indicates the direction of the velocity independent of the changes in the orientation of the perspective.