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Most people probably don't remember where they, the computing industry, or the everyday world were in 1996. But I remember that year very clearly. I was a sophomore in high school in the middle of Kansas, and it was the start of my journey into free and open source software (FOSS). I'm getting ahead of myself here. I was interested in computers even before 1996. I was born and raised on my family's first Apple ][e, followed many years later by the IBM Personal System/2.

Although there are a vast number of considerations (some common to traditional human-computer interfaces and some unique to spatial environments) that should be taken into account when designing for virtual reality (VR), there's one aspect of user interaction that particularly interests me as a developer: How should VR designers enable users to move within a virtual environment?