WebJump: AR-facilitated Distributed Display of Web Pages
Xin Zeng, Xiaoyu Wang, Zhengtai Gou, Yiqiang Chen, Tengxiang Zhang · 2023
Head-mounted displays (HMD) like AR glasses support powerful 3D displays and intuitive input modalities. However, there is a lack of collaboration between the HMD and other displays like PC monitors. In this paper, we propose WebJump, a software tool that analyzes HTML web pages and enables UI elements ‘jump’ from the PC monitor to the HMD. This way, contents like high-resolution images and long texts can take full advantage of the high-quality monitor display. Auxiliary contents like sidebars and menus, on the other hand, are offloaded to the HMD for easier access albeit with a lower display quality. We describe our software tool and explain in detail its implementation. We develop two applications to demonstrate WebJump’s feasibility and potential.