Creator and publication for Redirected Walking are incorrect

[niallw]

If the intention with the summary cards (the popup when you click on a locomotion interface's gif) is to credit the original creator of the locomotion interface, the info for redirected walking is incorrect. It was first introduced by Sharif Razzaque in the publication "S. Razzaque, Z. Kohn, and M. C. Whitton. Redirected walking. In Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS, vol. 9, pp. 105–106. Citeseer, 2001."

I see that the year on the redirected walking card is correct (2001) which suggests the website authors are aware of Razzaque's Eurographics paper, so I'm not sure if your intention actually was to add the citation to the original creator/publication. If the intention was not to credit the original creator/publication, I guess this issue can be closed/ignored 🙂 .

Edit: I can submit a pull request to change the creator/publication, if needed.

[locomotionvault]

@maxdiluca What do you think about this request? We are referencing the survey paper on redirected walking. Should we also include the first creators?

[niallw]

For what it's worth, if one exists, I think it's fine to reference a survey paper in the "Publication" field. It's fairly obvious if a paper is a survey paper, so anyone reading it will know that they aren't reading the original paper and will easily be able to find said original paper. I mainly brought it up here because it was not clear to me if the "Publication" field was intended to point to the original paper or not.

However, crediting Triangular Pixels as the creator of redirected walking does not seem correct to me. In the literature, Razzaque is considered the creator, and a quick Google shows that Triangular Pixels was not even founded until 13 years after Razzaque's Eurographics paper.

[poke50uk]

FYI @niallw Unseen Diplomacy doesn't use Redirected Walking. Redirected Walking is very different - it rotates the scene around the origin of the player. https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/egs20011036 "Redirected Walking addresses this limitation by interactively and imperceptibly rotating the virtual scene about the user. The rotation causes the user to walk continually toward the furthest wall of the lab without noticing the rotation." This means there is still fake movement being forced on the player - just in the form of rotation.

Here's my write up about it; https://connect.unity.com/p/articles-environmental-redirection-unseen-diplomacy-1