Box Selection with Deselection

Also known as VSVD, VSPD

With one controller, pressing the trigger fixes a corner of a box and moving the hand stretches it; releasing selects everything inside, and a mode switch lets the same box, or a touch, remove objects from the selection.

How it works

In VSVD the box is used both to select and to deselect, with a button toggling the mode (green box to add, yellow to remove). In VSPD the box selects and touching an object with the controller deselects it. With 12 participants on a Quest 2, selecting objects within arm's reach one by one with a touch was faster and more robust in random layouts, while the box variants were faster in a structured bookshelf scene; deselection was used mostly to fix mistakes.

Papers

Zhiqing Wu, Difeng Yu, Jorge Goncalves (2023). Point- and Volume-Based Multi-object Acquisition in VR. Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023, LNCS 14142, 20-42 doi:10.1007/978-3-031-42280-5_2