Controlling your contents with the breath: Interactive breath interface for VR, games, and animations

Area of Science:

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Virtual Reality
• Sensor Technology

Background:

• User interface (UI) methods for virtual reality (VR) and animation control are crucial.
• Existing interaction techniques primarily focus on screen touch and motion recognition.
• Novel input methods for VR interaction remain underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

• To propose a new real-time interface for controlling VR content, games, and animations.
• To utilize user's breath and a mobile device's acceleration sensor for interaction.
• To explore breath as a novel input modality for VR.

Main Methods:

• Calculated breath direction using user-device position and angle.
• Determined control input via the mobile device's acceleration sensor.
• Filtered breath input using a kernel to model actual breath patterns and reduce noise.

Main Results:

• Developed a novel breath-controlled VR interface.
• Demonstrated real-time interaction with VR content, games, and animations.
• Applied breath as an external force in VR environments.

Conclusions:

• The proposed interface offers a new method for VR interaction.
• Breath control combined with acceleration sensing provides intuitive real-time manipulation.
• This study advances the field of VR user interfaces and interaction techniques.