Evaluation of hand and stylus based calibration for optical see-through head-mounted displays using leap motion

Next generation OST HMDs promise the inclusion of a variety of integrated and on-board sensors. In particular, hand tracking cameras, such as the Leap Motion, show potential for facilitating intuitive OST calibration procedures accessible to researchers, developers, and novice users alike. In this work, we evaluate hand and stylus based OST calibration utilizing tracking data from a Leap Motion. Our findings show that performance of both methods is comparable to results from prior studies using standard environment-centric methods. Also, while our hand based calibration improved through the use of more contextual reticle designs, calibrations performed with a stylus yielded the most accurate and precise results over all.