VMirror
Virtual mirrors placed in the scene let the user see and select objects that are occluded or far away through their reflection.
How it works
The user places a mirror so that the hidden target is visible in it, then points at the reflection; the selection is mapped back to the real object.
Papers
- Nianlong Li, Zhengquan Zhang, Can Liu, Zengyao Yang, Yinan Fu, Feng Tian, Teng Han, Mingming Fan (2021). VMirror: Enhancing the Interaction with Occluded or Distant Objects in VR with Virtual Mirrors. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems doi:10.1145/3411764.3445537
- Jan Leusmann (2021). A Literature Review on Distant Object Selection Methods. Master's thesis, University of Stuttgart doi:10.18419/opus-12060
- Truillet, Dubois, Serrano (2025). Occlusion Reduction Techniques for the Selection of Physical Referents in AR: Adaptation and Evaluation of VR Techniques. IHM '25 (Conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Humain-Machine) doi:10.1145/3765712.3765719