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  When the user puts on the headset they are transported into the virtual environment, in this case they start
  standing still on a jetty facing the Aviva yacht. Users are able to look all around in 360 degrees and with the
  aid of a simple joy-pad device move around in the direction they are looking in.
 
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  It is nearly always assumed that users will be experiencing a virtual environment for the first time, and so the
  jetty concept (simple start position) is employed to acclimatise the user to wandering around a 'flat' VR world
  before asking them to navigate around more complex object such as a deck of a yacht.