Gestural Interaction And Navigation Techniques For Virtual Museum Experiences
Ariel Caputo, Irina-Mihaela Ciortan, Davide Corsi, Marco De Stefani, Andrea Giachetti · INFM-OAR (INFN Catania) · 2016
Virtual museums are one of the most interesting applications of Virtual Reality environment, but their success is strongly depending on the development of effective interaction techniques allowing a natural and fast exploration of their contents. In this paper a series of interaction techniques in a full immersive Virtual Reality environment are presented. These techniques are specifically designed to cover basic needs of a virtual museum experience such as navigating in the museum space and accessing meta-information associated to displayed items. Details of the implemented methods and preliminary results collected in user tests performed to compare different navigation choices are presented and discussed.