Ninja Hands
One physical hand controls many virtual hands spread across the space, so the nearest copy can touch the target.
How it works
Several virtual hands move in parallel with the real hand. A target is selected by whichever copy reaches it, reducing the distance the arm must travel.
Papers
- Jonas Schjerlund, Kasper Hornbæk, Joanna Bergström (2021). Ninja Hands: Using Many Hands to Improve Target Selection in VR. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems doi:10.1145/3411764.3445759
- Jan Leusmann (2021). A Literature Review on Distant Object Selection Methods. Master's thesis, University of Stuttgart doi:10.18419/opus-12060
- Difeng Yu, Tilman Dingler, Eduardo Velloso, Jorge Goncalves (2024). Object Selection and Manipulation in VR Headsets: Research Challenges, Solutions, and Success Measurements. ACM Computing Surveys doi:10.1145/3706417