How Much of What We Learn in Virtual Reality Transfers to Real-World Navigation?

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1163/22134808-20201445" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1163/22134808-20201445</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134808-20201445" target="_blank" >10.1163/22134808-20201445</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

How Much of What We Learn in Virtual Reality Transfers to Real-World Navigation?

Original language description

Past studies suggest that learning a spatial environment by navigating on a desktop computer can lead to significant acquisition of spatial knowledge, although typically less than navigating in the real world. Exactly how this might differ when learning in immersive virtual interfaces that offer a rich set of multisensory cues remains to be fully explored. In this study, participants learned a campus building environment by navigating (1) the real-world version, (2) an immersive version involving an omnidirectional treadmill and head-mounted display, or (3) a version navigated on a desktop computer with a mouse and a keyboard. Participants first navigated the building in one of the three different interfaces and, afterward, navigated the real-world building to assess information transfer. To determine how well they learned the spatial layout, we measured path length, visitation errors, and pointing errors. Both virtual conditions resulted in significant learning and transfer to the real world, suggesting their efficacy in mimicking some aspects of real-world navigation. Overall, real-world navigation outperformed both immersive and desktop navigation, effects particularly pronounced early in learning. This was also suggested in a second experiment involving transfer from the real world to immersive virtual reality (VR). Analysis of effect sizes of going from virtual conditions to the real world suggested a slight advantage for immersive VR compared to desktop in terms of transfer, although at the cost of increased likelihood of dropout. Our findings suggest that virtual navigation results in significant learning, regardless of the interface, with immersive VR providing some advantage when transferring to the real world.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30103 - Neurosciences (including psychophysiology)

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Multisensory Research

ISSN

2213-4794

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4-5

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

479-503

UT code for WoS article

000520864600006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85082813726