- Title
- The Virtual Remote Control-An Extensible, Virtual Reality, User Interface Device
- Creator
- Rorke, Michael, Bangay, Shaun D
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 1999
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/432743
- Identifier
- vital:72896
- Identifier
- https://www.cs.ru.ac.za/research/Groups/vrsig/pastprojects/013interaction/paper02.pdf
- Description
- Immersive virtual reality (VR) places the user inside of the computing envi-ronment, blurring the distinction between the environment itself and the user interface to access that environment non-obvious. This lack of distinction between environment and interface makes it difficult to place menus and other interface elements where the user is both able to access them easily and where they do not obscure large parts of the users field of view. We propose a system called the 'Virtual Remote Control' (VRC). The VRC con-sists of a physical device (a small touchpad tracked using a Polhemus In-sideTrak magnetic tracker) which the user is able to hold and for which there is a representation in the virtual environment. The VRC is represented in the environment by a virtual menu. The user is able to make selections from the virtual menu by moving their finger around the touch pad part of the VRC and 'tapping' on the required action. Additionally, the user is able to select an object for the action to be applied on, by 'pointing' the representa-tion of the VRC at the object-as one would point a remote control at a Hi-fi of TV set.
- Format
- 5 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Proceedings of South African M. and PhD. Conference, Rorke, M. and Bangay, S., 1999, June. The Virtual Remote Control-An Extensible, Virtual Reality, User Interface Device. In Proceedings of South African M. and PhD. Conference (pp. 39-43), Proceedings of South African M. and PhD. Conference volume 1999 number 1 39 43 1999 Conference
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Bangay, Shaun Douglas (Dr)
RU Department of Computer Science
SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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