Hae-Won Byun

We present a new 3D user interface for selecting an arbitrarily shaped region of interest (ROI) in virtual reality. The interface’s primary objective is the selection of a surface geometry’s boundaries having various shapes (e.g., arch- or concave-shaped boundaries) for 3D model editing or annotation. Compared with previous convex ROI shape selection, we explore a more challenging arbitrarily shaped selection. We address this issue by generating a flexible selection space based on a user’s multiple finger position mapping into the shaped ROI on a 3D surface geometry and providing visual feedback to assist the user in progressively refining the selection shape. We employ a leap motion controller for free-hand finger position input and gesture-based navigation to construct a flexible and natural user interface. To demonstrate the efficiency of our method, we evaluate the system usability by conducting a user study and compare the results with those of the state-of-the-art manual-input ROI selection technique.

We propose a low-asymmetry interface to improve the presence of non-head-mounted-display (non-HMD) users in shared virtual reality (VR) experiences with HMD users. The low-asymmetry interface ensures that the HMD and non-HMD users’ perception of the VR environment is almost similar. That is, the point-of-view asymmetry and behavior asymmetry between HMD and non-HMD users are reduced. Our system comprises a portable mobile device as a visual display to provide a changing PoV for the non-HMD user and a walking simulator as an in-place walking detection sensor to enable the same level of realistic and unrestricted physical-walking-based locomotion for all users. Because this allows non-HMD users to experience the same level of visualization and free movement as HMD users, both of them can engage as the main actors in movement scenarios. Our user study revealed that the low-asymmetry interface enables non-HMD users to feel a presence similar to that of the HMD users when performing equivalent locomotion tasks in a virtual environment. Furthermore, our system can enable one HMD user and multiple non-HMD users to participate together in a virtual world; moreover, our experiments show that the non-HMD user satisfaction increases with the number of non-HMD participants owing to increased presence and enjoyment.

사단법인 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회의 논문지로서 그래픽스 분야와 그에 연관된 연구영역의 새로운 발견과 최첨단 연구결과를 발표하는 토론의 장입니다. 학회를 대표하는 학술지인 논문지는 1995년에 논문지 발간을 시작으로 2000년부터 3월, 6월, 9월, 12월 총 4회 발간되었고, 2015년부터는 KCGS 학술대회 특별호를 7월에 발간하면서 총 5회 발간되고 있습니다.