A 6D mouse for virtual environments

Using new algorithms developed in the field of augmented reality and registration, we investigate further means of extracting three dimensional positioning and orientation information from a device created at Bell Laboratories. We also made modifications to the device in order to adapt it for use in the context of a virtual reality workbench.

1 Introduction

In order to interact with virtual environments (VE), users often need to interactively position and orient objects or camera views. In order to do so, a lot of 6 degrees of freedom (DOF) input devices have been realized such as face trackers [6], [9], [13], nose trackers [5], hand trackers [11], [12], [14], magnetic trackers [2], [4] and other devices targeted more at the home user [1], [3]