3D Selection Vault

Yea Big, Yea High

Selecting surfaces and regions in VR by progressive refinement, sketching the extent of the selection with the hands.

How it works

The user roughly indicates the size and position of the region with both hands, then narrows the selection in further steps until it covers the intended surface.

Papers

• Bret Jackson, Brighten Jelke, Gabriel Brown (2018). Yea Big, Yea High: A 3D User Interface for Surface Selection by Progressive Refinement in Virtual Environments. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) doi:10.1109/vr.2018.8447559
• 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
• Zhouhao Wu, Qichen Liu, Mingming Zhou (2026). Interaction Techniques for Scientific Data Analysis in Extended Reality. IEEE Access doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3721743