Now Interact in Virtual Reality Using Your Smile
Scientists have developed a new technology that allows users to interact in a virtual reality environment using only mouth gestures such as a smile.
The proliferation of affordable virtual reality head- mounted displays provides users with realistic immersive visual experiences.
However, head-mounted displays occlude the upper half of a user's face and prevent facial action recognition from the entire face.
To combat this issue, researchers from Binghamton University in the US created a new framework that interprets mouth gestures as a medium for interaction within virtual reality in real-time.
The team tested the application on a group of students. Once a user put on a head-mounted display, they were presented with a simplistic game.
The objective of the game was to guide t...