Our group focuses on the development of innovative virtual, augmented, and extended reality environments (VR/AR/XR)
A cup of coffee in Mixed Reality: analysis of movements' smoothness from real to virtual
Lorenzo Gerini, Fabio Solari, Manuela Chessa
Mixed Reality (MR) is promising to fuse the visualization potentialities of Virtual Reality (VR) with the physical properties of the real world, thus allowing a more natural interaction in virtual environments and preserving visuomotor coordination and tactile perception.
In this work, we perform an interaction task, taking a cup of coffee, which involves hand movements and grasping. We consider three scenarios: an MR/passive haptics environment implementing an ecological object substitution technique, in which the user touches real objects tracked in real-time and sees a virtual counterpart; a classical VR environment, in which virtual objects do not have any real counterpart; and the corresponding real scenario.
In MR, the tracked real object can be either with a shape like the virtual one or a simpler real object (a parallelepiped)
Poster presentation at ISMAR2022
Gerini, L., Solari, F., Chessa, N. (2022). A Cup of Coffee in Mixed Reality: Analysis of Movements' Smoothness from Real to Virtual. In IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct)
Improving Obstacle Awareness to Enhance Interaction in Virtual Reality
Ivan Valentini, Giorgio Ballestin, Chiara Bassano, Fabio Solari, Manuela Chessa
We present a method to create a virtual scenario composed of virtual objects having the same spatial
occupancy of the corresponding real ones.
Valentini, I., Ballestin, G., Bassano, C., Solari, F., & Chessa, M. (2020, March). Improving obstacle awareness to enhance interaction in virtual reality. In 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) (pp. 44-52).
See the presentation at IEEE VR 2020