Eike Langbehn

Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
 Web: https://www.haw-hamburg.de/hochschule/beschaeftigte/detail/person/person/show/eike-langbehn/2048/

Eike Langbehn is Professor for Media Informatics at HAW Hamburg. He studied Computer Science in Oldenburg and Hamburg and graduated with a PhD thesis about perceptual aspects of VR locomotion in 2019. In 2020, he co-founded Curvature Games, a Hamburg-based games studio that is specialised in narrative VR experiences. Since 2012, he has been working in the games industry as a programmer and game designer on titles for different platforms including web, mobile and VR.

Selected Publications:

  • Eike Langbehn and Frank Steinicke. 2019. Space walk: a combination of subtle redirected walking techniques integrated with gameplay and narration. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Emerging Technologies (SIGGRAPH ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 24, 1–2. DOI:10.1145/3305367.3327976
  • Eike Langbehn, Frank Steinicke, Markus Lappe, Gregory F. Welch, and Gerd Bruder. 2018. In the blink of an eye: leveraging blink-induced suppression for imperceptible position and orientation redirection in virtual reality. ACM Trans. Graph. 37, 4, Article 66 (August 2018), 11 pages. DOI:10.1145/3197517.3201335
  • E. Langbehn, P. Lubos, G. Bruder and F. Steinicke, “Bending the Curve: Sensitivity to Bending of Curved Paths and Application in Room-Scale VR,” in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 1389-1398, April 2017, DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2017.2657220.

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    All Sessions by Eike Langbehn

    • 2. Game Technology Summit

      July 8

    • 17:45  - 18:15
      Natural walking in virtual reality games is constrained by the physical boundaries defined by the size of the player's tracking space. Impossible spaces, a redirected walking technique, enlarge the virtual environment by creating overlapping architecture and letting multiple locations occupy the same physical space. Within certain thresholds, this is subtle to the player. In this paper, we present our approach to implement such impossible spaces and describe how we handled challenges like objects with simulated physics or precomputed global illumination.
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