Text Entry in Virtual Reality: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature

摘要

The availability of consumer-ready Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) has resulted in a surge in VR applications. It has also prompted the design and development of numerous text entry techniques for the paradigm. However, it is difficult to understand the mechanism of these techniques and extract meaningful average performance data from this body of work since they were evaluated in diverse experiment conditions and report different performance metrics. To remedy this, this paper classifies the existing text entry techniques for VR based on their input mechanism and discusses their strengths, limitations, and performance.