Hafnia Hands: A Multi-Skin Hand Texture Resource for Virtual Reality Research
This provides a practical tool for VR researchers to improve study design by matching hand representations to participants' skin tones, though it is incremental as it builds on existing texture resources.
The authors tackled the problem of limited hand texture diversity in virtual reality research by creating a multi-skin hand texture resource, which they validated to align with participants' views of their own hands and increase body ownership in VR applications.
We created a hand texture resource (with different skin tone versions as well as non-human hands) for use in virtual reality studies. This makes it easier to run lab and remote studies where the hand representation is matched to the participant's own skin tone. We validate that the virtual hands with our textures align with participants view of their own real hands and allow to create VR applications where participants have an increased sense of body ownership. These properties are critical for a range of VR studies, such as of immersion.