Object manipulation for perceiving a sense of material using user-perspective mobile augmented reality

Abstract

In this study, we conducted an experiment using a mobile augmented reality (AR) system that allows direct manipulation of a virtual object with the user’s hand and that presents material appearance of the object. The system presents user-perspective images on the mobile display, which enables natural interaction with virtual objects. We compared the methods with user-perspective and camera-perspective presentation using an object manipulation task for material perception. The result showed that the answer time in the task became significantly shorter with user-perspective presentation, which indicates that user-perspective presentation makes manipulation of virtual objects in mobile AR easier.