TeleHand: Hand-only Teleportation for Distant Object Pointing in Virtual Reality

The goal of this study is to present an easy-to-use and accurate pointing technique for distant objects in a virtual reality environment. For this purpose, we propose TeleHand pointing, in which the user first teleports only their hand near a target and points at the target using the ray cast from the teleported hand. To evaluate the usability of our method, we performed a user study in which participants repeated selection tasks for distant targets. As a result, we found that, although the proposed method slightly increases the task completion time, it significantly reduces pointing errors for distant targets compared to the traditional ray-based method.