Webizing human interface devices for virtual reality

Abstract

Recently virtual reality (VR) technology has been widely distributed, but VR interaction devices supported in web environments are limited compared with in the traditional VR environment. In the traditional VR environment, the Virtual-Reality Peripheral Network (VRPN) provides a device-independent and network-transparent interface. To promote the development of WebVR applications with various interaction devices, a method like VRPN is required in the web environment as well. In this paper, we propose a webizing method for human interface devices and related events that serves as either VRPN messages or HTML DOM events to deal with interaction events.