The Impact of Avatar Retargeting on Pointing and Conversational Communication.

One of the pleasures of interacting using avatars in VR is being able to play a character very different to yourself. As the scale of characters change relative to a user, there is a need to retarget user motions onto the character, generally maintaining either the user's pose or the position of their wrists and ankles. This retargeting can impact both the functional and social information conveyed by the avatar.