“Manipulate the Unreachable: Through-The-Lens Remote Object Manipulation in Virtual Environments” by Stoev, Schmalstieg and Strasser

  • ©Stanislav L. Stoev, Dieter Schmalstieg, and Wolfgang Strasser

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    Virtual Reality

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    Manipulate the Unreachable: Through-The-Lens Remote Object Manipulation in Virtual Environments

Session/Category Title:   Interaction Mechanisms


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    We have found that even though is does not have a counterpart in real life, remote object manipulation is both useful and intuitive. Our approach provides a solution to the problem of changing and examining the scene from the current viewpoint, while manipulat- ing objects in distant locations of the virtual world. We achieve this with the aid of though-the-lens tools.

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