Being able to see and use your hands are crucial for interactive virtual reality experiences. While there are several input controllers coming to the market there are still fundamental problems related to using your hands in VR. Regardless of what controllers are being used it is difficult to make hand interaction look natural and realistic, which causes problems for experiences where the feeling of presence is key. Gleechi has been working with artificial hand movement and interaction for 8 years within robotics research and will share their knowledge about how to enable free and natural hands in VR. Attendees will leave with real tips and tricks on how to work with hands in virtual reality. They will have concrete examples of what works and what doesn't, as well as the reasons why. Augmented World Expo (AWE) is back for its seventh year in our largest conference and expo featuring technologies giving us superpowers: augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and wearable tech. Join over 4,000 attendees from all over the world including a mix of CEOs, CTOs, designers, developers, creative agencies, futurists, analysts, investors, and top press in a fantastic opportunity to learn, inspire, partner, and experience first hand the most exciting industry of our times. See more at http://AugmentedWorldExpo.com

3. Surgeon Simulator by Bossa Studios

4. Toybox Demo by Oculus

5. Spaceship repair
Spaceship Repair

6. Giant Cop by Other Ocean

7. ADR1FT by Three One Zero

8. Job Simulator by Owlchemy Labs

9. The cortical homunculus
Primary motor cortex

10. 25
Mixamo

11. Performance
speed,
strength,
repeatability,
accuracy,
etc.)
Flexibility (quantity of tasks)
What Hand do you need for your Application?

12. Performance
simple,
user-friendly,
dev-friendly,
responsive,
etc.
What Input do you need for your Application?
Flexibility (quantity of tasks)

13. Some things we learned
1. Choose controller based on the use case

14. Daydream
HTC Vive
Perception Neuron
Manus Machina
Oculus Touch
GloveOne
Dexmo Glove
Kinect One
Sony PS4 Camera
Nimble VR
Intel RealsenseLeapMotion
Sony Move
STEM
T-Glove
Motion
Controllers
Gloves
3D
sensors

15. Motion
Controllers
Gloves
3D
sensors
Convenient

16. Some things we learned
1. Choose controller based on the use case
2. Avoid the uncanny valley

17. R2-D2
C-3PO

19. R2-D2
C-3PO

20. Some things we learned
1. Choose controller based on the use case
2. Avoid the uncanny valley
3. Avoid hand personalities (use gloves)

22. Some things we learned
1. Choose controller based on the use case
2. Avoid the uncanny valley
3. Avoid hand personalities (use gloves)
4. Be consistent

23. Representation
Gloves / human hands
Robot hands
Transparent hands
Cartoon hands
Tools & controllers
Interaction
Highly natural
Somewhat natural
Object penetration
Invisible
Static
Complex
Abstract

24. Some things we learned
1. Choose controller based on the use case
2. Avoid the uncanny valley
3. Avoid hand personalities (use gloves)
4. Be consistent
5. Skip the arms… for now

25. Some things we learned
1. Choose controller based on the use case
2. Avoid the uncanny valley
3. Avoid hand personalities (use gloves)
4. Be consistent
5. Skip the arms… for now
6. Think long and hard about every object in the scene

27. Some things we learned
1. Choose controller based on the use case
2. Avoid the uncanny valley
3. Avoid hand personalities (use gloves)
4. Be consistent
5. Skip the arms… for now
6. Think long and hard about every object in the scene
7. Make it obvious how to interact with the object

28. The Gallery by Cloudhead Games

29. Some things we learned
1. Choose controller based on the use case
2. Avoid the uncanny valley
3. Avoid hand personalities (use gloves)
4. Be consistent
5. Skip the arms… for now
6. Think long and hard about every object in the scene
7. Make it obvious how to interact with the object
8. Pick the most natural grasps

30. M. R. Cutkosky (1989). “On grasp choice, grasp
models, and the design of hands for manufacturing tasks”
Grasp Taxonomies

31. Some things we learned
1. Choose controller based on the use case
2. Avoid the uncanny valley
3. Avoid hand personalities (use gloves)
4. Be consistent
5. Skip the arms… for now
6. Think long and hard about every object in the scene
7. Make it obvious how to interact with the object
8. Pick the most natural grasps
9. Use feedback

32. VirtualGrasp