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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Virtual reality (VR) is crucial for spatial navigation research, offering immersive and interactive environments.
  • Existing VR tools for experiments are limited in scope, usability, and comparability.
  • A need exists for flexible and manageable VR experimental development tools.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce the Virtual Navigation Toolbox (VNT) for creating spatial navigation VR experiments.
  • Provide a modular and reusable set of tools for VR experiment development.
  • Demonstrate the VNT's utility through a showcase study.

Main Methods:

  • Developed the Virtual Navigation Toolbox (VNT) using the Unity game engine.
  • Designed VNT with interchangeable and independent modules for flexibility.
  • Implemented a showcase study using the VNT to test spatial navigation principles.

Main Results:

  • The VNT facilitates the creation of diverse VR spatial navigation experiments.
  • Homing performance in a triangle completion task was invariant to avatar translation velocity.
  • Homing performance was highly sensitive to the number of landmarks present in the VR environment.

Conclusions:

  • The VNT is a valuable, open-source resource for researchers in spatial navigation and VR.
  • The VNT promotes easier development and data management for VR experiments.
  • Findings highlight the importance of landmarks over avatar speed for spatial memory in VR navigation.