Interscopic User Interface Concepts for Fish Tank Virtual Reality Systems

In this paper we introduce new user interface concepts for fish tank virtual reality (VR) systems based on autostereoscopic (AS) display technologies. Such AS displays allow to view stereoscopic content without requiring special glasses. Unfortunately, until now simultaneous monoscopic and stereoscopic display was not possible. Hence prior work on fish tank VR systems focussed either on 2D or 3D interactions. In this paper we introduce so called interscopic interaction concepts providing an improved working experience, which enable great potentials in terms of the interaction between 2D elements, which may be displayed either in monoscopic or stereoscopic, e.g., GUI items, and the 3D virtual environment usually displayed stereoscopically. We present a framework which is based on a software layer between the operating system and its graphical user interface supporting the display of both mono- as well as stereoscopic content in arbitrary regions of an autostereoscopic display. The pr...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: VR
• Authors: Frank Steinicke, Timo Ropinski, Gerd Bruder, Klaus Hinrichs
• Keywords: Tank Vr Systems, Virtual Reality, VR 2007, fish Tank, fish Tank Vr