Tangible VR

Harley, Daniel; Tarun, Aneesh P.; Germinario, Daniel; Mazalek, Ali

doi:10.1145/3064663.3064680

Cited by 49 publications

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“…Games such as Metaspace II [39] or Real Virtuality [6] integrated real physical objects, such as a box and a rod, in order to enhance the realism in a virtual environment. Harley and colleagues [13] provided a system to integrate real objects into virtual reality and presented an actuated stuffed animal as interaction object for "Tangible VR", thus combining active and passive haptics. The VR sandbox [11] even provides a box filled with real sand that can be used in VR to design the surface structure of the virtual environment.…”

Section: Haptics In Virtual Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does It Feel Real?

Muender

Reinschluessel

Drewes

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Professionals in domains like film, theater, or architecture often rely on physical models to visualize spaces. With virtual reality (VR) new tools are available providing immersive experiences with correct perceptions of depth and scale. However, these lack the tangibility of physical models. Using tangible objects in VR can close this gap but creates the challenges of producing suitable objects and interacting with them with only the virtual objects visible. This work addresses these challenges by evaluating tangibles with three haptic fidelities: equal disc-shaped tangibles for all virtual objects, Lego-built tangibles, and 3D-printed tangibles resembling the virtual shapes. We present results from a comparative study on immersion, performance, and intuitive interaction and interviews with domain experts. The results show that 3D-printed objects perform best, but Lego offers a good trade-off between fast creation of tangibles and sufficient fidelity. The experts rate our approach as useful and would use all three versions. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Virtual reality; Haptic devices; User studies;

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Section: Haptics In Virtual Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does It Feel Real?

Muender

Reinschluessel

Drewes

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Johnson et al [16] instrumented plush toys with various sensors including pitch and roll sensors, gyroscope, and magnetometers as well flexion and squeeze sensors, which enabled them to sense various kinds of interactions with the toys. Although the usage of the toys was not in immersive VR but rather in front of a screen, this project demonstrates an interesting aspect of adapting existing toys: they are familiar to users and they can easily be "diegetic tangibles" that "exist within the space and time of a narrative's world and can be an effective strategy for interaction design and for narrative design" [9]. Sajjadi et al [23] employed Sifteo Cubes as tangible objects in a VR game -Maze Commander -where two players, one using a VR headset and another manipulating the Sifteo Cubes, collaborate to escape a maze.…”

Section: Tangibles In Vrmentioning

confidence: 99%

VR Book: A Tangible Interface for Smartphone-based Virtual Reality

Cardoso¹,

Ribeiro²

2020

MobiQuitous 2020 - 17th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

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In this work we present three prototypes of the tangible VR Book: a visual marker-based solution to tangible interaction for smartphonebased Virtual Reality (VR). Smartphone-based VR represents a low barrier to entry in VR experiences given that many people nowadays own a smartphone device and that VR headsets for these devices are affordable and quick to set up when compared to desktopbased VR. Tangible interaction in smartphone-based VR has not been much explored, in our opinion, despite the fact that it can result in easy to use and engaging experiences. In this work, we explore a marker-based solution to object tracking that allows tangibles to be created in an easy and cheap way, maintaining the overall system accessible. We describe a design space for visual marker-based tangible interaction and three prototypes of a tangible VR Book that explore different aspects of the design space. We also present user feedback on their expectations regarding the interaction with the VR Book. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Virtual reality; Smartphones; Ubiquitous and mobile computing design and evaluation methods.

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“…Applications of level 3 often make use of tactile interaction techniques, such as haptic devices [22] and tangible user interfaces (TUI) [23]. Examples of various engineering VR solutions are presented in Fig.…”

Section: Industrial Vr Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building Virtual Reality Applications for Engineering with Knowledge-Based Approach

Górski¹

2017

Management and Production Engineering Review

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Accepted: 10 December 2017The paper presents a novel methodology of building industrial Virtual Reality applications with use of a knowledge-based approach. Virtual Reality is becoming more and more widespread in engineering applications. However, most solutions are immediate and not flexible, especially in maintenance. Traditional way of programming VR applications makes all the knowledge about a product or a process hard-coded, effectively losing access to it from the outside of the programming software. Besides, making new solutions without any methodology whatsoever makes the process longer and less effective. The author proposes to use general rules of available Knowledge Engineering methodologies in order to make the process of building VR applications more effective and to ensure their flexibility and access to stored knowledge, even after an application is deployed. The presented methodology is supported with practical case studies.

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Tangible VR

Cited by 49 publications

References 19 publications

Does It Feel Real?

Does It Feel Real?

VR Book: A Tangible Interface for Smartphone-based Virtual Reality

Building Virtual Reality Applications for Engineering with Knowledge-Based Approach

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