The Virtual Navigation Toolbox: Providing tools for virtual navigation experiments

Müller M, Scherer J, Unterbrink P, Bertrand O, Egelhaaf M, Boeddeker N (2023)
PLoS ONE 18(11): e0293536.

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Spatial navigation research in humans increasingly relies on experiments using virtual reality (VR) tools, which allow for the creation of highly flexible, and immersive study environments, that can react to participant interaction in real time. Despite the popularity of VR, tools simplifying the creation and data management of such experiments are rare and often restricted to a specific scope—limiting usability and comparability. To overcome those limitations, we introduce the Virtual Navigation Toolbox (VNT), a collection of interchangeable and independent tools for the development of spatial navigation VR experiments using the popular Unity game engine. The VNT’s features are packaged in loosely coupled and reusable modules, facilitating convenient implementation of diverse experimental designs. Here, we depict how the VNT fulfils feature requirements of different VR environments and experiments, guiding through the implementation and execution of a showcase study using the toolbox. The presented showcase study reveals that homing performance in a classic triangle completion task is invariant to translation velocity of the participant’s avatar, but highly sensitive to the number of landmarks. The VNT is freely available under a creative commons license, and we invite researchers to contribute, extending and improving tools using the provided repository.
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
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PLoS ONE
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18
Ausgabe
11
Art.-Nr.
e0293536
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1932-6203
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Müller M, Scherer J, Unterbrink P, Bertrand O, Egelhaaf M, Boeddeker N. The Virtual Navigation Toolbox: Providing tools for virtual navigation experiments. PLoS ONE . 2023;18(11): e0293536.
Müller, M., Scherer, J., Unterbrink, P., Bertrand, O., Egelhaaf, M., & Boeddeker, N. (2023). The Virtual Navigation Toolbox: Providing tools for virtual navigation experiments. PLoS ONE , 18(11), e0293536. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293536
Müller, Martin, Scherer, Jonas, Unterbrink, Patrick, Bertrand, Olivier, Egelhaaf, Martin, and Boeddeker, Norbert. 2023. “The Virtual Navigation Toolbox: Providing tools for virtual navigation experiments”. PLoS ONE 18 (11): e0293536.
Müller, M., Scherer, J., Unterbrink, P., Bertrand, O., Egelhaaf, M., and Boeddeker, N. (2023). The Virtual Navigation Toolbox: Providing tools for virtual navigation experiments. PLoS ONE 18:e0293536.
Müller, M., et al., 2023. The Virtual Navigation Toolbox: Providing tools for virtual navigation experiments. PLoS ONE , 18(11): e0293536.
M. Müller, et al., “The Virtual Navigation Toolbox: Providing tools for virtual navigation experiments”, PLoS ONE , vol. 18, 2023, : e0293536.
Müller, M., Scherer, J., Unterbrink, P., Bertrand, O., Egelhaaf, M., Boeddeker, N.: The Virtual Navigation Toolbox: Providing tools for virtual navigation experiments. PLoS ONE . 18, : e0293536 (2023).
Müller, Martin, Scherer, Jonas, Unterbrink, Patrick, Bertrand, Olivier, Egelhaaf, Martin, and Boeddeker, Norbert. “The Virtual Navigation Toolbox: Providing tools for virtual navigation experiments”. PLoS ONE 18.11 (2023): e0293536.
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