Abstract
“Virtual spaces and pre-experience in geographic space”- The virtualrepresentations of space have largely democratized in recent years. Market liberalization of satelliteimages and increased capacity of data transfer on the wired and non wired deeply involved in theestablishment of virtual globes now connected to cyberspace.The man has more and more use of virtual spaces for understanding space. Whetherdeveloping a route or finding a place, the paper map and tourist guide disappear in favor of VirtualEarth and mobile phones.In this context transfer usage, virtual representations of space appear, along with the use ofGPS, providing a skewed perception of space. For despite their intrinsic qualities common, especiallyfor navigation in an unknown space, their use would change our relationship to space and in somecases could affect their learning.The objective of this multidisciplinary communication is to update the popularity of virtualglobes while questioning their practices in the pre-condition of spatial experience. For the currentdevices used to test virtual space prior to physically experience. We see through a comparativeexperiment, as part of a complex path, subjects who had a pre-experience of virtual space are lessefficient than subjects who saw a plane 2D paper and less effective than subjects who completed a tour.Analysis of GPS traces of subjects will allow us to draw conclusions about the types of failures anderrors.