Demonstrating XDTK: Prototyping Multi-Device Interaction and Arbitration in XR

Eric J. Gonzalez, Ishan Chatterjee, Khushman Patel, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Andrea Colaço, Karan Ahuja*

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Abstract

The interaction space of XR head-mounted devices can be extended by leveraging other digital devices, such as phones, tablets, and smartwatches. We present a demonstration of XDTK (Cross-Device Toolkit), an open-sourced prototyping toolkit for multi-device interactions in XR. The toolkit consists of: (1) an Android app that runs on client devices and surfaces pose, touch, and other sensor data to a (2) Unity server that can be added to any Unity-based XR application. For this demo, we specifically apply XDTK toward a few example applications, including multi-device arbitration. By leveraging relative pose data from each device, we can infer which device the user is gazing at so as to seamlessly hand off control and display between multiple devices. We also show examples leveraging a tablet sketching and a smartwatch for menu navigation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationUIST Adjunct 2024 - Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)9798400707186
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 13 2024
Event37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST Adjunct 2024 - Pittsburgh, United States
Duration: Oct 13 2024Oct 16 2024

Publication series

NameUIST Adjunct 2024 - Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Conference

Conference37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST Adjunct 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh
Period10/13/2410/16/24

Keywords

  • cross-device
  • interaction
  • mixed reality
  • multi-device
  • toolkit

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Software

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