Sailing Skweezee: An Exploration of Squeeze Interaction in VR
PubDate: October 2019
Teams: KU Leuven
Writers: Bert Vandenberghe;Jef Meijvis;Thomas Sodermans;Kathrin Gerling;Vero Vanden Abeele;Luc Geurts
PDF: Sailing Skweezee: An Exploration of Squeeze Interaction in VR
Abstract
Sailing Skweezee is a game that explores squeeze interaction in virtual reality. Squeezing a soft controller stuffed with conductive wool steers a virtual boat through a course on water. The game is played with an Oculus Rift headset and is developed in Unity. An open source Skweezee library for Unity implements the squeeze interaction. Sailing Skweezee is found to deliver an immersive experience, aligning subtle physical manipulations of soft material with a floating experience of sailing on a virtual sea.