Grabbing the Air

Validation level: 5. CHI, UIST, CSCW and TOCHI paper publication

Grabbing the Air is a gestural interaction technique to navigate in a virtual environment. With your hand, you reach for an arbitrary point in space. Then, you can grab to push and pull yourself away, or towards them.

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Publications

The Virtual Tricorder: A Uniform Interface for Virtual Reality

Conference: UIST Proceedings '95, 1995
By: Matthias Wloka, Eliot Greenfield

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