An arm-mounted inertial controller for 6DOF input: Design and evaluation

Young, Thomas; Teather, Robert J.; MacKenzie, I. Scott

doi:10.1109/3dui.2017.7893314

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“…Young, Teather and Mackenzie developed an IMU-based input device mounted on the users' arm to enabled 6DOF target selection via virtual hand techniques [49]. Such a device is an attractive option for use with EZCursorVR since it does not require tethering as it is largely self-contained and does not require an external tracker.…”

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“…Ideally a selection device should support selection of both near and far targets. A recent study using an arm-mounted IMU-based 6DOF input device was developed and tested in a Fitts' law test environment [49]. Despite results showing a lower error rate, selection performance was mediocre but more importantly, many users expressed arm fatigue due to the nature of the selection where the user had to hold their arm in front of them and move it to select targets.…”

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2D Selection in Virtual Reality with Head Mounted Displays

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We present an evaluation of a new selection technique for virtual reality (VR) systems presented on head-mounted displays. The technique, dubbed EZCursorVR, presents a 2D cursor that moves in a head-fixed plane, simulating a 2D desktop-like cursor for VR. The cursor can be controlled by any 2 degree of freedom (DOF) and 3/6DOF input device. We conducted two experiments based on ISO 9241-9. In the first study, we compared the effectiveness of EZCursorVR using six different controllers. Results indicate that the mouse offered the best performance, while the position-control joystick performed the worst. In the second study we evaluate EZCursorVR using three different transfer functions using the mouse with different degrees of cursor acceleration. Results indicate that, despite previous research, constant acceleration performed better than the other two transfer functions. We believe that future evaluation needs to be conducted to evaluate different acceleration curve steepnesses using the same transfer function.iii Acknowledgements First and foremost, I would like to thank my thesis supervisor, Dr. Robert Teather for his continuous guidance and support throughout my time as a graduate student. I am grateful to him for not only teaching me how to be a better researcher, but also for pushing me to publish my work in academic conferences. His perseverance in ensuring that my research wasn't just confined to Carleton University, led to several publications and gave me the opportunity to present my work internationally in Denver, CO and Brighton, UK.

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2D Selection in Virtual Reality with Head Mounted Displays

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“…Early work in this area explored the idea of connecting a smartphone to a VR or Augmented Reality (AR) system and allowing the user to interact with 3D objects using a combination of HMD's and Hand-Held Devices (HHD's) [7,8]. A few different approaches using a smartphone or other smart devices for interaction in VR and AR have been proposed since, with and without some type of external tracking or hardware adaptations [1][2][3][4][5][6][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. While some approaches focus on using built-in sensors in smart devices to control hand held ray casters or pointers [16][17][18], our approach is mainly image-based, like TrackCap and PAIR [4,5].…”

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“…Other researchers have explored using devices that are not necessarily smart devices but contain Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors [9,12]. This includes the work by Young et al, where an arm-mounted input device was tested, and the work by Hincapié-Ramos et al, which proposed using a smartphone-like device as a controller.…”

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SmartVR Pointer: Using Smartphones and Gaze Orientation for Selection and Navigation in Virtual Reality

McDonald,

Zhang,

Nanzatov

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Some of the barriers preventing Virtual Reality (VR) from being widely adopted are the cost and unfamiliarity of VR systems. Here we propose that in many cases the specialized controllers shipped with most VR head-mounted displays can be replaced by a regular smartphone, cutting the cost of the system, and allowing users to interact in VR using a device they are already familiar with. To achieve this, we developed SmartVR Pointer, an approach that uses smartphones as a replacement for the specialized controllers for two essential operations in VR: selection and navigation by teleporting. In SmartVR Pointer a camera mounted on the head-mounted display (HMD) is tilted downwards so that it points to where the user will naturally be holding their phone in front of them. SmartVR Pointer supports three selection modalities: tracker-based,gaze-based, and combined/hybrid. In the tracker-based SmartVR pointer selection we use image-based tracking to track a QR code displayed on the phone screen and them map the phone’s position to a pointer shown within the field of view of the camera in the Virtual Environment. In the gaze-based selection modality the user places the pointer using their gaze and taps on the phone for selection. The combined technique is a hybrid between head-gaze-based interaction in VR and smartphone-based Augmented Reality. It allows the user to control a VR pointer that behaves like a mouse pointer by moving their smartphone to select objects within the virtual environment, and to interact with the selected objects using the smartphone’s touch screen. The touchscreen is used for selection and dragging. SmartVR Pointer is simple and requires no calibration and no complex hardware assembly or disassembly. We demonstrate successful interactive applications of SmartVR Pointer in a VR environment with a demo where the user navigates in the virtual environment using teleportation points on the floor and then solves a Tetris-style key-and-lock challenge.

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Semantic Modelling of User Interactions in Virtual Reality Environments

Sokołowski

Walczak

2018

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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An arm-mounted inertial controller for 6DOF input: Design and evaluation

Cited by 17 publications

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2D Selection in Virtual Reality with Head Mounted Displays

2D Selection in Virtual Reality with Head Mounted Displays

SmartVR Pointer: Using Smartphones and Gaze Orientation for Selection and Navigation in Virtual Reality

Semantic Modelling of User Interactions in Virtual Reality Environments

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