Design Guideline: Providing a comfortable locomotion experience is essential for creating immersive and enjoyable apps that allow people to engage in a world that is far bigger than the physical space they occupy. Refer to the Locomotion Design Guide to learn about best practices and to minimize risks of user discomfort.

Locomotion interactions let users move around a virtual space. Interaction SDK supports several types of locomotion: teleport, turnslide and step. Teleport lets the user select a distant location in the scene and move to it instantly. Turning lets the user turn on the spot. Sliding allows the user to freely move around the virtual space while being constrained by physics such as the floor or walls, and stepping lets the user to do quick steps in any direction to easily adjust their position. To try locomotion interactions in a pre-built scene, see the LocomotionExamples scene.

By the end of this guide, you should be able to:

Locomotion interactions work via LocomotionEventBroadcasters and LocomotionEventHandlers.

LocomotionEventBroadcasters, such as the Teleport Interactor or the TurningEventBroadcaster, are input events that indicate if the player character be moved to an specific place in the virtual world, translate at an specified velocity, turn 90 degrees in the spot, etc.

LocomotionEventHandlers receive the events generated by the different LocomotionEventBroadcasters and apply them to the specified character ensuring that they are combined gracefully while constraining the movement so the character stays in sync with the virtual world.