UIWatch: An immersive virtual smartwatch VR menu interaction study

Abstract

Previous research found that immersion has a positive influence on learnability in educational VR applications. Research also found that UI has an influence on learning performance in VR. However no research has been done into UI menu interactions and immersion. I present the UIWatch, an immersive menu interaction method. The UIWatch is based on existing literature on how to achieve immersion and should be beneficial to educational VR applications. In this study, when compared to the most common used method of raycasting, the UIWatch was found to be significantly more immersive.