Exploration of Interaction Techniques for Graph-based Modelling in Virtual Reality

TL;DR

This paper investigates interaction techniques for graph-based modeling in virtual reality, providing insights and open-source prototypes to enhance immersive editing of complex models like architectural geometries.

Contribution

It explores VR-based interactive modeling, offering new interaction methods and open-source tools for manipulating graph models in immersive environments.

Findings

Developed open-source prototypes for VR graph manipulation

Identified key interaction challenges in VR modeling

Provided design insights for effective VR-based graph editing

Abstract

Editing and manipulating graph-based models within immersive environments is largely unexplored and certain design activities could benefit from using those technologies. For example, in the case study of architectural modelling, the 3D context of Virtual Reality naturally matches the intended output product, i.e. a 3D architectural geometry. Since both the state of the art and the state of the practice are lacking, we explore the field of VR-based interactive modelling, and provide insights as to how to implement proper interactions in that context, with broadly available devices. We consequently produce several open-source software prototypes for manipulating graph-based models in VR.