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Head Tracking for Video Games

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This chapter talks about related work on head gesture recognition and usage of head tracking for several applications including games and virtual reality. An experiment which systematically explores the effects of head tracking, in complex gaming environments typically found in commercial video games is presented. This experiment seeks to find if there are any performance benefits of head tracking in games and how it affects the user experience. We present the results of this experiment along with some guidelines for the game designers who wish to use head tracking for games.

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  1. School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA

    Arun K. Kulshreshth

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Joseph J. LaViola Jr.

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Kulshreshth, A.K., LaViola, J.J. (2018). Head Tracking for Video Games. In: Designing Immersive Video Games Using 3DUI Technologies. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77953-9_3

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