Fly Over, a 3D Interaction Technique for Navigation in Virtual Environments Independent from Tracking Devices

Overview & Synopsis

A good 3D user interface associated with 3D interaction techniques is very important in order to increase the realness and the easiness of the interaction in Virtual Environments (VEs). 3D user interfaces systems often use multiple input devices, especially, tracking devices. So, the search for new metaphors and techniques for 3D interaction adapted to the navigation task, independently from devices used, is an important stage for the realization of future 3D interaction systems that support multimodality, in order to increase efficiency and usability. In this paper we propose a new tracking device-independent 3D interaction model called Fly Over. The core principles of Fly Over make it compatible with all 3D/2D-pointing devices.