Visual Cues

Stripes Up

Black & White stripes moving upwards is most frequently used. (4Mb download)

Stripes Down

Black & white stripes going down appeared to be counterproductive. (4Mb download)

Garden Steps

Animation of climbing garden steps with peripheral objects such as trees (3Mb download)

Coloured Tunnel

An animation of going up a tunnel of red and blue stripes. (4Mb download) Usually we had the stripes coming towards the user. In INDIGO the cues are in the peripheral vision and so the tunnel effect makes less sense. These cues were developed for a semi-transparent head mounted display (shown below).

Semi transparent HMD

INDIGO started life as a semi-transparent Head Mounted Display with head motion and orientation tracking (not shown).