  With the continuing development of affordable immersive virtual reality (VR)
systems, there is now a growing market for consumer content. The current form
of consumer systems is not dissimilar to the lab-based VR systems of the past
30 years: the primary input mechanism is a head-tracked display and one or two
tracked hands with buttons and joysticks on hand-held controllers. Over those
30 years, a very diverse academic literature has emerged that covers design and
ergonomics of 3D user interfaces (3DUIs). However, the growing consumer market
has engaged a very broad range of creatives that have built a very diverse set
of designs. Sometimes these designs adopt findings from the academic
literature, but other times they experiment with completely novel or
counter-intuitive mechanisms. In this paper and its online adjunct, we report
on novel 3DUI design patterns that are interesting from both design and
research perspectives: they are highly novel, potentially broadly re-usable
and/or suggest interesting avenues for evaluation. The supplemental material,
which is a living document, is a crowd-sourced repository of interesting
patterns. This paper is a curated snapshot of those patterns that were
considered to be the most fruitful for further elaboration.
