A comparative study of 3 dof travel techniques for immersive virtual flythroughs: The leap motion and the oculus rift s hand controllers

Abstract

This paper describes a comparative study of two different 3 degrees-of-freedom (DOF) flythrough techniques for immersive 3D environments. The results of this qualitative study indicate that the use of the Oculus Rift S hand controllers provides a greater usability than the use of Leap Motion free hand gestures system for a simple 3 DOF flythrough travel task inside immersive virtual environments. However, the correction of technical issues with the current Leap Motion free hand gesture recognition system could lead to different results.