Virtual Touchpad for AR Glasses Based on Gesture Recognition

This paper proposes a control method called virtual touchpad for AR glasses which mirrors a screen of a PC. Using virtual touchpad, a user can control mouse cursor by gestures similar to the ones of a physical touchpad. Different from a physical touchpad, it is hard for users to recognize hand’s position and operation status. To solve these problems, we introduce the flexible position mechanism and visual feedbacks. From the result of volunteer’s test, we confirm that virtual touchpad is a good method to control AR glasses.