A Comparison of Gesture and Controller-based User Interfaces for 3D Design Reviews in Virtual Reality

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2022-01-04
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Nyyssönen, Taneli
Helle, Seppo
Lehtonen, Teijo
Smed, Jouni
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We present a custom virtual reality (VR) hand-tracking user interface developed in Unity, and compare it with a similar industry level application (CTRL Elements) utilising controllers. Both applications afford spawning, relocating, reorienting, and rescaling 3D-models within a virtual environment in addition to horizontal, vertical, and rotational user movement options. The interfaces are tested with Oculus Quest 2 VR headset, which is also responsible for the hand-tracking. Our main motivation is to gain an insight into whether hand-tracking UIs could provide added value to industrial design review solutions. We also pinpoint the major advantages and flaws in the controllerless approach and report which of our gesture-based controls are the most intuitive and usable.
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Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Reality: Services and Applications, design review, gesture, hand-tracking, user interface, virtual reality
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10 pages
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Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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