Insert Your Own Body in the Oculus Rift to Improve Proprioception

Manuela Chessa, Lorenzo Caroggio, Huayi Huang, Fabio Solari

2016

Abstract

A natural interaction in virtual reality environments, in particular when wearing head-mounted-displays, is often prevented by the lack of a visual feedback about the user’s own body. This paper aims to create a virtual environment, in which the user can visually perceive his/her own body, and can interact with the virtual objects, by using a virtual body that replicates his/her movements. To this aim, we have set up an affordable virtual reality system, which combines the Oculus Rift head-mounted-display, a Microsoft Kinect, and a Leap Motion, in order to recreate inside the virtual environments a first-person avatar, who replicates the movements of the user’s full-body and the fine movements of his/her fingers and hands. By acting in such an environment, the user is able to perceive him/herself thus improving his/her experience in the virtual reality. Here, we address and propose a solution to the issues related to the integration of the different devices, and to the alignment and registration of their reference systems. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed system is assessed through an experimental session, in which several users report their feeling by answering to a 5-points Likert scale questionnaire.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Chessa M., Caroggio L., Huang H. and Solari F. (2016). Insert Your Own Body in the Oculus Rift to Improve Proprioception . In Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISION4HCI, (VISIGRAPP 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-175-5, pages 755-762. DOI: 10.5220/0005851807550762

in Bibtex Style

@conference{vision4hci16,
author={Manuela Chessa and Lorenzo Caroggio and Huayi Huang and Fabio Solari},
title={Insert Your Own Body in the Oculus Rift to Improve Proprioception},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISION4HCI, (VISIGRAPP 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={755-762},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005851807550762},
isbn={978-989-758-175-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISION4HCI, (VISIGRAPP 2016)
TI - Insert Your Own Body in the Oculus Rift to Improve Proprioception
SN - 978-989-758-175-5
AU - Chessa M.
AU - Caroggio L.
AU - Huang H.
AU - Solari F.
PY - 2016
SP - 755
EP - 762
DO - 10.5220/0005851807550762