Consciousness Reframed II Human Spatial Orientation in Virtual Worlds

This paper presents an experiment which investigated the impact of the way that a place was posi-tioned in relation to a path in a virtual environment, on the orientation of subjects within this place. The application of any rotation on a place in relation to a path was found to decrease the easiness of orientation within the place. The impact of pitch and roll rotations on a place was compared. Finally, the way that subjects positioned their viewpoints when they moved within a place was investigated