Enhanced Techniques to Implement Jumping-Over-Down and Jumping-At-Air Using Pressure-Sensing Shoes in Virtual Reality

Enhance the experience of jumping in the virtual reality environment is interesting and useful for various applications. This work includes three parts which are Pressure-sensing Shoes, Jumping-Over-Down and Jumping-at-Air. One particular designed pressure-sensing shoes are used for jumping detection. This design could substantially reduce the cost of detecting jumping behaviors while ensuring high precision. Jumping-Over-Down allows users to control a virtual avatar to perform realistic downward jump in virtual reality environment. While Jumping-at-Air, based on a novel redirection-jump mechanism, represents a type of surreal jumping which resembles the double-jump feature found in video games. From the hovering position, user can execute another jumping.