Interactive configurable virtual environment with Kinect navigation and interaction

Abstract

As a solution to immersive virtual museum visits, we propose an extension upon the platform we previously developed for Setting-up Interactive Virtual Environments (pSIVE) that maintains all of the Virtual Environment creation features of the platform as well as content association (PDF, Video, Text), but also allows gesture-based interaction and one to one navigational input using skeleton tracking with a Kinect that is calibrated in the real world space where the user is located in. In order to validate our new navigation and interaction methods, a comparative study was performed, comparing our gesture-based interaction and positional tracking with a controller button navigation and interaction method.