Visualizing and navigating complex situated hypermedia in augmented and virtual reality

We present a set of techniques that enable mobile users to visualize and navigate complex hypermedia structures embedded in the real world, through augmented reality or virtual reality. Situating hypermedia in the 3D physical environment makes it possible to represent information about users´ surroundings in context. However, it requires addressing a new set of problems beyond those of visualizing hypermedia on a 2D display: Nodes and links can potentially be distributed across large distances, and may be occluded by other objects, both real and virtual. Our techniques address these issues by enabling mobile users to select and manipulate portions of the hypermedia structure by tilting, lifting and shifting them, to view more clearly links and nodes that would otherwise be occluded or ambiguously connected.