Tools and metatools for interacting with a virtual environment

Henry A. Sowizral

doi:10.1117/12.173904

15 April 1994 Interacting with virtual environments using augmented virtual tools

Henry A. Sowizral

Proceedings Volume 2177, Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.173904
Event: IS&T/SPIE 1994 International Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1994, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Users of virtual environments currently have few good options for controlling or interacting with their environment from within. Existing VR interaction techniques, including menus, postures, gestures, and wands, all suffer from a variety of problems, not the least of which is the unnatural, almost forced, mapping that exists between the input act and its corresponding function. This paper describes a new technique for controlling and interacting with virtual environments. The techniques superimposes an object in the real world with an augmented representation of that object in the virtual environment. Such blending of a physical object with its augmented virtual representation results in a surprising natural interaction metaphor.

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Henry A. Sowizral "Interacting with virtual environments using augmented virtual tools", Proc. SPIE 2177, Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems, (15 April 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.173904

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