Wang (2004) showed that people do not always simultaneously update their relationships to real and imagined environments in a dual-environment situation. Employing the same paradigm, we examined whether spatial updating operates on virtual reality as it does on a real or fictitious environment. Participants learned target locations in a real room and a virtual kitchen. Then they turned to face targets either in the room or in the kitchen, while blindfolded, and pointed to the targets before and after turning. Participants kept track of their orientation in both environments equally efficiently, regardless of explicit instructions. In contrast, when the real environment was described verbally but not directly perceived, participants automatically updated the virtual kitchen but not the room. These results suggest that people automatically update a virtual environment as they do a real one when the two environments are superimposed. The automaticity of spatial updating is discussed.

中文翻译：

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叠加的真实和虚拟环境中的空间更新。

Wang（2004）指出，在双重环境中，人们并不总是同时将他们的关系更新为真实和想象的环境。使用相同的范式，我们研究了空间更新是在虚拟现实上还是在虚拟或虚拟环境上进行的。参与者了解了真实房间和虚拟厨房中的目标位置。然后，他们被蒙住了眼睛，转向房间或厨房里的目标，并在转向前后指向目标。不管有没有明确的指示，参与者都同样有效地在两种环境中跟踪他们的方向。相反，当通过口头描述而不是直接感知真实环境时，参与者会自动更新虚拟厨房，而不是房间。这些结果表明，当两个环境重叠时，人们会像在真实环境中一样自动更新虚拟环境。讨论了空间更新的自动化。