MagicalHands: Mid-Air Hand Gestures for Animating in VR
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Gesture elicitation with professional animators covers six scenarios (tornado, bouncing ball, rigid bodies, particles, cloth, fluids) and produces concrete mappings used to build MagicalHands, a VR prototype that uses Oculus Rift plus Leap Motion for hand view and Oculus Touch for coarse pose recognition. The system implements 8 gestures for direct translation, bimanual scale, rotation and contextual particle controls (noise, spiral, drag‑drop shape), creates scenes in 5–30 minutes, and releases code and an executable.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to MagicalHands
- 1:49Why use mid-air gestures
- 3:15Gesture elicitation study
- 6:26Design guidelines for VR animation
- 7:50Prototype implementation
- 8:56Direct manipulation gestures
- 9:38Particle system gestures
- 11:46Demo animations with MagicalHands
- 13:13Future work and limitations
- 14:18Closing and acknowledgments
- 14:58Q&A session
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