Manipulate the Unreachable: Through-The-Lens Remote Object Manipulation in Virtual Environments

Introduction In this work, we introduce a concept for remote object manipulation. We have found that even though is does not have a counterpart in real life, remote object manipulation is both useful and intuitive. Our approach provides a solution to the problem of changing and examining the scene from the current viewpoint, while manipulating objects in distant locations of the virtual world. We achieve this with the aid of though-the-lens tools.