OrBI – A Hands-free Virtual Reality User Interface for Mobile Devices

Authors

  • Paulo Victor de Magalhães Rozatto Computer Science Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
  • André Luiz Cunha de Oliveira Computer Science Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
  • Rodrigo Luis de Souza da Silva Computer Science Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4187-8798

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jmm1550-4646.1866

Keywords:

Virtual Reality, User Interface, Hands-free

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present OrBI, a framework for developing hands-free user interfaces for interacting with low-cost Virtual Reality systems through mobile devices. The proposed implementation was developed and used in various Virtual Reality apps. To assess OrBI’s precision and ease to use, we submit the framework to a quantitative and qualitative evaluation. The findings indicate that the proposed interface model is easy to use and have a suitable precision. The findings also showed that the framework might be challenging for older people to use and, in some cases, tiresome.

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Author Biographies

Paulo Victor de Magalhães Rozatto, Computer Science Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil

Paulo Victor de Magalhães Rozatto is an undergraduate student in Computer Science at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. He has a IT Technician certificate from the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro (2018). His research interests are Computer Graphics, Augmented Reality, and Virtual Reality.

André Luiz Cunha de Oliveira, Computer Science Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil

André Luiz Cunha de Oliveira is an undergraduate student in Computer Science at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. His research interests are Computer Graphics, Augment Reality and Virtual Reality.

Rodrigo Luis de Souza da Silva, Computer Science Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil

Rodrigo Luis de Souza da Silva is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Federal University of Juiz de Fora. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the Catholic University of Petropolis (1999), M.S. in Computer Science from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2002), Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2006) and a postdoc in Computer Science from the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (2008). His main research interests are Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics.

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Published

2022-07-18

How to Cite

Rozatto, P. V. de M. ., Oliveira, A. L. C. de ., & Silva, R. L. de S. da . (2022). OrBI – A Hands-free Virtual Reality User Interface for Mobile Devices. Journal of Mobile Multimedia, 18(06), 1599–1616. https://doi.org/10.13052/jmm1550-4646.1866

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