Workshop on Novel Input Devices and Interaction Techniques 2025

Virtual Reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed/extended reality (MR/XR) have become a mainstream technology. Recent advances in VR display technologies have led to high-resolution, ergonomic, and – critically – low-cost head-mounted displays (HMDs). Advances in commercial input devices and interaction techniques have arguably not kept pace with these advances in display systems. For instance, most HMDs include tracked input devices, but these "controllers" are still fairly similar to the earliest examples of 3D controllers used in the VR systems of the 1980s. Interaction in commercial VR systems has similarly lagged; despite many advances in 3D interaction in the past three decades of VR research, interaction in commercial systems largely relies on classical techniques like the virtual hand or ray-casting.