The 3DUI contest for 2022 tasked groups to create an XR application with the theme of “Arts, Science, Information, and Knowledge – Visualized and Interacted.” This had the further goal of taking classic or well-known 3D user interaction techniques and enhancing or modifying them to be more effective in a given scenario.

The team I organized and captained created an entry that focused on trash accumulating in the ocean as an important global issue that needs to be addressed. Our application puts the user in the role of a research scientist that has created a new submarine that can clear trash more easily using 2 new 3D user interaction techniques that enhance the “Go-go” and “World in Miniature” techniques. We dubbed these Relative Mapping X-ray Go-Go (ReXGoGo) and Rabbit-out-of-hat World in Miniature (RoHWiM). More details can be seen in our published contest entry here.

To try it yourself, download for Oculus Quest here, and for SteamVR here.

Our work earned the first place prize at IEEE VR 2022. A teaser video can be seen below.