3D Selection Vault

Redirecting Rays

Assistive raycasting that subtly bends the ray towards likely targets to make selection easier.

How it works

The visible ray is redirected towards a target the system considers intended, compensating for pointing error without the user noticing large changes.

Papers

• Jenny Gabel, Susanne Schmidt, Oscar Ariza, Frank Steinicke (2023). Redirecting Rays: Evaluation of Assistive Raycasting Techniques in Virtual Reality. ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) doi:10.1145/3611659.3615716
• Mohammadreza Amini, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Robert J. Teather, Anil Ufuk Batmaz (2025). A Systematic Review of Fitts' Law in 3D Extended Reality. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems doi:10.1145/3706598.3713623