Take Me Home: How Locomotion Methods in Virtual Reality Affect Path Integration Performance

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Different locomotion methods in virtual reality, including room-scale movement, continuous artificial locomotion, and teleportation, significantly affect path integration performance in environments lacking local reference points. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

Denise O'Meara; Julian Keil; Dennis Edler; Frank Dickmann

doi:10.5194/ica-abs-12-104-2026

September 7, 2026Abstracts of the ICAOpen Access

Take Me Home: How Locomotion Methods in Virtual Reality Affect Path Integration Performance

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To investigate the influence of room-scale virtual reality, continuous artificial locomotion, and teleportation on human path integration performance in cue-sparse virtual environments.
Tested 35 participants (16 females, 19 males; aged 20–42 years, mean = 26.06, SD = 5.02) recruited from a student community.
Administered path integration tasks in a virtual environment devoid of local reference points using a Meta Quest Pro head-mounted display across three distinct locomotion modes.
Navigation accuracy was evaluated by comparing path integration error metrics across physical body movement (room-scale) and virtual navigation interfaces (continuous movement vs. teleportation).
Spatial updating performance highlights the differential contributions of vestibular and proprioceptive feedback versus purely visual flow during virtual locomotion.

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Experimental study examines path integration across three virtual reality locomotion modes in young adults, highlighting the sensory factors shaping human spatial navigation.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa27a5658559d80afc72e94 https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-12-104-2026

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