Locomotion refers to the means by which the user is able to move around within a VR environment. Most systems use some combination of three different types of locomotion: teleportation, transportation, and perambulation. Teleportation allows the user to point and click on a location to teleport there or select from a predefined list of locations to travel to, giving them a certain freedom of movement but no option for movement in between locations. Transportation makes the user a passenger in a vehicle or on an animal that moves along a predefined path, allowing them to move their head or hands, but making them unable to move away from their mode of transportation in any way beyond choosing a different object to follow. Perambulation uses handheld controllers, the HMD, or room-tracking to track the user’s movements and give them the ability to move as they would in the real world, though only to the extent allowed by a given system.
