Gestural communication in VR

Gestures play an important role in how we communicate and interact with others. Gestural interfaces were already part of VR experiences with controllers. But now with hand tracking on Oculus Quest and devices like Leap Motion, gestural communication is something worth exploring even further within VR.

Been playing with gestures and haptics previously, in this post, I decided to look into theory behind gestural interfaces — and more specifically into different categorisations of gestural communication that can apply in human-computer interactions.

Even though pathic and affective communication can enhance virtual experiences, due to direct influence on objects and immediate delivery of information, spatial and symbolic communication can be most effective and useful in human-computer interaction.

Controllers like Oculus Touch do offer a number of gestural commands. However, gestural commands with hands have a number of advantages which include more flexibility, not having to hold any devices in the hands, not having to see or directly look at the hands, etc.

At the same time, due to such flexibility, there can be an overwhelmingly large amount of gestures that the user will have to learn and remember.

When designing VR experiences with gestural commands, one should consider:

Which experiences in VR do you know that offer interesting gestural communication? Let me know in comments :)

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