Hand tracking for immersive virtual reality: opportunities and challenges

G Buckingham - Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Hand tracking has become an integral feature of recent generations of immersive virtual
reality head-mounted displays. With the widespread adoption of this feature, hardware …

Sensorimotor Simulation of Redirected Reaching using Stochastic Optimal Feedback Control

EJ Gonzalez, S Follmer - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Illusory VR interaction techniques such as hand redirection work because humans use
vision to adjust their motor commands during movement (eg, reaching). Existing simulations …

When tangibles become deformable: Studying pseudo-stiffness perceptual thresholds in a vr grasping task

E Bouzbib, C Pacchierotti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pseudo-Haptic techniques, or visuo-haptic illusions, leverage user's visual dominance over
haptics to alter the users' perception. As they create a discrepancy between virtual and …

A reinforcement learning approach to redirected walking with passive haptic feedback

ZY Chen, YJ Li, M Wang, F Steinicke… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various redirected walking (RDW) techniques have been proposed, which unwittingly
manipulate the mapping from the user's physical locomotion to motions of the virtual camera …

Induce a blink of the eye: Evaluating techniques for triggering eye blinks in virtual reality

A Zenner, K Ullmann, O Ariza, F Steinicke… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
As more and more virtual reality (VR) headsets support eye tracking, recent techniques
started to use eye blinks to induce unnoticeable manipulations to the virtual environment …

Predicting hand-object interaction for improved haptic feedback in mixed reality

M Salvato, N Heravi, AM Okamura… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurately detecting when a user begins interaction with virtual objects is necessary for
compelling multi-sensory experiences in mixed reality. To address inherent sensing …

Exploring the effect of virtual environments on passive haptic perception

D Kim, Y Kim, D Jo - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in virtual reality (VR) technologies such as immersive head-mounted
display (HMD), sensing devices, and 3D printing-based props have become much more …

Efficient and Comfortable Haptic Retargeting With Reset Point Optimization

A Sun, J Wu, R Fan, SK Im… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Passive haptics utilize the shape of a physical object to convey feedback to the user and
enhance immersion in virtual reality. Haptic retargeting is a passive haptic interaction …

Shape aware haptic retargeting for accurate hand interactions

BJ Matthews, BH Thomas… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents Shape Aware Haptic Retargeting, an extension of" state-of-the-art"
haptic retargeting that is the first to support retargeted interaction between any part of the …

Investigating the effect of direction on the limits of haptic retargeting

A Clarence, J Knibbe, M Cordeil… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Haptic Retargeting enables spatially decoupled physical objects to provide haptic feedback
for multiple virtual objects in Virtual Reality (VR). By decoupling the virtual hand from its real …