Interaction in an Immersive Collaborative Virtual Reality Environment: A Comparison Between Leap Motion and HTC Controllers

摘要

The spread of immersive virtual reality technologies, e.g. low-cost head-mounted-displays, has opened the way to the development of collaborative and interactive virtual environments, which can be exploited to obtain effective exergames. One open issue is how to obtain a natural interaction within these environments. This paper presents a prototype of collaborative environment, where users, immersed into virtual reality, can manipulate objects by using the HTC Vive controllers or the Leap Motion. We investigate which interaction modality is better by taking into account both objective measurements (e.g. the number of positioning errors) and qualitative observations.