Navidget for immersive virtual environments

ABSTRACT

We present a novel interaction technique called Immersive Navidget for navigation in immersive virtual environments (VE), see Figure 1. This technique, based on Navidget, allows fast and easy 3D camera positioning from simple controls. In this paper, we focus on the technical issues that are induced by the VR setups and we propose solutions to adapt Navidget to the immersive context. We show that this new approach has many advantages for navigation in immersive VEs.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.3 COMPUTER GRAPHICS
      I.3.7 Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism

Keywords:
interaction techniques, virtual reality