A cost-effective sensor system to train light weight juggling using an interactive virtual reality interface

Marina Vela Nuñez^*, Carlo Avizzano^*, Denis Mottet^† and Massimo Bergamasco^*

^(*) PERCRO Perceptual Robotics Laboratory, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
^(†) Movement to Health (M2H), Montpellier-1 University, France
E-mail: m.velanunez@sssup.it, carlo@sssup.it, denis.mottet@univ-montp1.fr, bergamasco@sssup.it

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to train how to juggle using a sensor system based on one of the most commercial, sophisticated and accessible input devices, the Wii Remote controller. This platform, particularly its infrared camera, is used to develop a real-time sensor system for hand motion tracking and fit it into a virtual reality interface. The quality of our algorithm was tested through this 3D virtual interface, which has the finality to give the user visual feedback of his/her hand positions, and created for the user the sensation of juggling.