evan-sumaEvan Suma is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California Institute of Creative Technologies. He was at IEEE VR presenting a poster on “Towards Context-Sensitive Reorientation for Real Walking in Virtual Reality” led by his USC ICT students Timofey Grechkin & Mahdi Azmandian.

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Evan talks about some of the redirected techniques and different visual tricks for getting the most use out of your constrained physical space. For example, here’s a 2012 paper from Evan titled: “Impossible Spaces: Maximizing Natural Walking in Virtual Environments with Self-Overlapping Architecture.” You can read some of his other papers here in his list of publications.

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  • Don Gateley

    Thanks, Kent, for something a bit deeper than the norm.