This chapter investigates how low-cost virtual reality equipment can be used in the study of human wayfinding aided by maps in a virtual environment. In particular, the chapter looks into how head-up maps perform compared to north-up maps. An experiment including two mazes in a virtual environment was prepared and the navigation through the mazes was accomplished by a number of human subjects. In our experiment, the time used by each subject was measured. The timing showed no significant differences between the use of head-up maps and north-up maps when the subjects were finding their way by the use of Oculus Rift DK1 in the actual environment.
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Henriksen, S. P., & Midtbø, T. (2015). Investigation of map orientation by the use of low-cost virtual reality equipment. In Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (pp. 75–88). Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17738-0_6
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