IRIS: Inter-Reality Interactive Surface

While many metaphors were developed for interactions from a specific point at the reality-virtuality continuum, much less attention has been paid to designing metaphors that allow the users to cross the boundaries between the virtual, the augmented, and the real. We propose a use of an Inter-Reality Interactive Surface (IRIS) that enables users to collaborate across the reality-virtuality continuum within the same application. While we examine IRIS in the context of an immersive educational platform, UniVResity, the metaphor can be generalized to many other application domains.