Construction and Function of the Vision Dome

Experiments in Large Urban Areas

In 1998, construction began on a virtual reality laboratory for parallel studies on navigation and orientation in a complex real area and in a corresponding virtual environment. The virtual environment was gradually expanded and today it is possible to move around in an immersive virtual environment in just the same way as a pedestrian would do in reality. VR provides detailed a detailed reproduction of the campus of UniBw M. 

Test subjects can be trained and tested both on the real-world UniBw M campus and in the “Neubiberg” VR environment.

Construction Vision Dome and Realization of Motion Control

  

Vision Dome with treadmill and components of motion control                                                   

  

Movement control in longitudinal direction                                Motion control when turning the direction of travel

 

Literature

Popp, Michael M.; Gouy, Emmanuel; Holtmannspötter, Jens: „Real Walking in Virtual Environments – A New Experimental Device”. In: EuroHaptics 2004, Munich, Germany, June 5-7, S. 156-159.