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)

Publications

01.03.2024

2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)

Effects of Hand Occlusion in Radial Mid-Air Menu Interaction in Augmented Reality

Nico Feld, Daniel Zielasko, Benjamin Weyers

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01.04.2021

2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)

Mixed Reality in Asymmetric Collaborative Environments: A Research Prototype for Virtual City Tours

Nico Feld, Benjamin Weyers

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01.09.2019

Mensch und Computer 2019

Overview of Collaborative Virtual Environments using Augmented Reality

Nico Feld, Benjamin Weyers

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