VXSlate: Combining Head Movement and Mobile Touch for Large Virtual Display Interaction

Virtual Reality (VR) headsets can open opportunities for users to accomplish complex tasks on large virtual displays, using compact setups. However, interacting with large virtual displays using existing interaction techniques might cause fatigue, especially for precise manipulations, due to the lack of physical surfaces. We designed VXSlate, an interaction technique that uses a large virtual display, as an expansion of a tablet. VXSlate combines a users headmovement, as tracked by the VR headset, and touch interaction on the tablet. The users headmovement position both a virtual representation of the tablet and of the users hand on the large virtual display. The users multi-touch interactions perform finely-tuned content manipulations.