Virtual City Tours in Cross Reality
Dissertation
This project leverages augmented and virtual reality to create immersive, collaborative virtual city tours, enabling AR-guided tours for VR-immersed participants. It focuses on bridging physical and virtual spaces, enhancing user interactions, and refining collaborative engagement in cross-reality environments.
Summary
This project explores the use of augmented and virtual reality to create an immersive collaborative experience for virtual city tours. The work started with developing a collaborative virtual environment framework that connects physical and virtual content, highlighting the unique challenges and opportunities of AR-based CVEs . Building on this foundation, a mixed reality prototype was created for virtual city tours, enabling guides using augmented and virtual reality to lead participants immersed in virtual environments. This system allows for interactive engagement, enhancing the experience for both guides and visitors. The project further addressed usability and interaction issues by examining the effects of hand occlusion on user interaction with radial mid-air menus in AR settings. Together, these contributions demonstrate the potential of cross-reality environments to enrich and redefine existing workflows in the case of virtual tourism experiences, integrating intuitive user interactions and collaborative elements across different realities.Videos
Talk - IEEEVR 2024
Talk - IEEEVR 2021
First Prototype (Handheld AR)
