DruMR: A Feedback Driven Mixed Reality Air Drumming System

This paper introduces DruMR, a mixed reality (MR) drumming system designed to make learning drums more accessible, responsive, and feedback-driven. By combining Aerodrums hardware with the Meta Quest 3 headset, DruMR allows users to drum in a virtual environment without a physical drum set. Unlike existing VR drumming applications, DruMR emphasizes instructional value through quantitative feedback and future integration of AI-generated insights, refined quantitative and qualitative visualizations, reactive environment modes and more. Overall, this paper reviews the current state of the DruMR system, related works that influenced the systems development, planned user study comparing physical and virtual training, and future work to be added to the system.

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arXiv (Cornell University)
Published
2026-11-02
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2611.02447
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Interactive and Immersive Displays
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DruMR: A Feedback Driven Mixed Reality Air Drumming System

Omar Elgohary, Viktor Radev, James Herbert, Akul Manoj
arXiv (Cornell University)
Interactive and Immersive Displays
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DruMR: A Feedback Driven Mixed Reality Air Drumming System

Omar Elgohary, Viktor Radev, James Herbert, Akul Manoj
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Abstract

This paper introduces DruMR, a mixed reality (MR) drumming system designed to make learning drums more accessible, responsive, and feedback-driven. By combining Aerodrums hardware with the Meta Quest 3 headset, DruMR allows users to drum in a virtual environment without a physical drum set. Unlike existing VR drumming applications, DruMR emphasizes instructional value through quantitative feedback and future integration of AI-generated insights, refined quantitative and qualitative visualizations, reactive environment modes and more. Overall, this paper reviews the current state of the DruMR system, related works that influenced the systems development, planned user study comparing physical and virtual training, and future work to be added to the system.

arXiv (Cornell University)
Interactive and Immersive Displays
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