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Navigation refers to all the systems that indicate or call attention to the route or path that you take. It focuses on the clues, hints, signs and traces of knowing your way around the virtual world.
Navigation refers to all the systems that indicate or call attention to the route or path that you take. It focuses on the clues, hints, signs and traces of knowing your way around the virtual world.
The next section will cover Locomotion, which are the means for navigation. Locomotion mechanics are the response from the user to the navigation design. We consider the design mainly in three categories; design elements or cues that are attached to the user's avatar, to a virtual character or to the environment.
The next section will cover Locomotion, which are the means for navigation. Locomotion mechanics are the response from the user to the navigation design. We consider the design mainly in three categories; design elements or cues that are attached to the user's avatar, to a virtual character or to the environment.
Objective of Traveling
Objective of Traveling
Reasons why you may move around in a virtual space could be to explore an environment (ie. wandering without purpose), pursuing to culminate an objective/ goal, follow a narrative through the story's guidance, and perform a skilled ability (ie. driving, skiing). For example, an experience like Aircar, a flying car demo in a sci-fi city, allows exploration through a skilled movement of flying cars without a guided narrative nor a specific objective.
Cues Tied to User's Avatar
Cues Tied to User's Avatar
These signs, compass, maps are attached to the main character, the user's avatar. It may be a Heads-Up Display showing a mini-map, a compass in the player's pocket or wrist; a field of view reduced to call the user's attention to a "window" in such reality; relative motion from the user's point-of-view to another moving element that appears around (attached) the main player, or a background component such as a mountain serving as guidance.
Audio could be a radio communication in your "earpiece" or the main character speaking out-loud to guide the player.
Phantom: Covert Ops (nDreams, 2020)
Budget Cuts (Neat Corporation, 2018)
Cues Tied to Virtual Environment
Cues Tied to Virtual Environment
These cues are persistent over time and do not rely on user's action.
For this example we have the "distraction" labels signaling objects that can be shot in the environment to distract virtual characters
Environment Legibility refers to how scene structure shows guidance using natural and fictional elements, redirecting the user's attention and movement through imaginable and coherent patterns.
Environment Legibility refers to how scene structure shows guidance using natural and fictional elements, redirecting the user's attention and movement through imaginable and coherent patterns.
(This example shows only one open window and one lit floor; the only path the player may take to navigate further - this example could be checked as Environment Legibility and Reference objects for comparison to clarify ambiguity [the other dark floors compared to the lit floor])
(This example shows only one open window and one lit floor; the only path the player may take to navigate further - this example could be checked as Environment Legibility and Reference objects for comparison to clarify ambiguity [the other dark floors compared to the lit floor])
Phantom: Covert Ops (nDreams, 2020)
Cues Tied to Virtual Character
Cues Tied to Virtual Character
Virtual Characters often bring news and errands about what is expected of the player to do. These are the characters that use voice, touch and/or visual movement (pointing or lighting to an area) to indicate direction of navigation.
For this example we see a yellow star on top of a virtual character, signaling a peculiarity of this character.
Citation:
Joseph J. LaViola, Doug A. Bowman, Ernst Kruijff, Ivan Poupyrev; 3D User Interfaces Theory and Practice. Addison-Wesley Professional; 2nd edition (2017).
Jason Jerald. Ph.D.; The VR Book: Human-Centered Design for Virtual Reality. Assocation for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool Publishers (2016).
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