Magical Experience with Full-body Action

TL;DR

This paper introduces a virtual reality system that combines full-body motion, immersive display, and magical interactions to create engaging virtual experiences inspired by storytelling.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel system integrating locomotion interface and immersive display to generate magical virtual experiences based on full-body motion.

Findings

System successfully captures and translates full-body movements into virtual interactions

Participants experience immersive and magical interactions in the virtual environment

Content created demonstrates the system's capability to deliver engaging virtual stories

Abstract

This paper presents a system that generates a magical experience with full-body motion. The system consists of a locomotion interface and a spatial immersive display. A virtual experience system named the Magical Experience Generator was developed, equipped with a Magical Experience Controller. This system provides a physical movement experience along with magical-like interactions in a virtual space. We developed content inspired by the Japanese story "The Man Who Made Flowers Bloom" using Unity as the system's environment. The locomotion interface records the participant's walking trajectory and hand movements, representing their actions in the virtual space.