3DUITK: An Opensource Toolkit for Thirty Years of Three-Dimensional Interaction Research

Abstract

We present the 3D User Interaction Toolkit (3DUITK), an open-source toolkit consisting of 25 Virtual Reality (VR) interaction techniques proposed from thirty years of prior research. Although interaction has been a topic heavily explored in previous papers, much of the research is yet to be re-implemented into an easy to use toolkit. Existing open-source VR interaction solutions provide basic functionality with few available techniques to choose from, and there has yet to be an open-source immersive user interaction toolkit to date. In this paper, we provide an overview of 3DUITK which includes the features, related works, design decisions, example applications, limitations, and future directions. While the focus of this work is on the VR context, 3DUITK has been employed in spatial augmented reality and mobile augmented reality applications.