Holding Hands for Short-Term Group Navigation in Social Virtual Reality

Abstract

Prior research has shown that social interactions in VR benefit from techniques for group navigation that bring multiple users to a common destination together. In this work, we propose the metaphor of holding onto another user’s virtual hand for the ad-hoc formation of a navigational group and report on the positive results of an initial usability study in an exploratory two-user scenario.

Nomination for IEEE Virtual Reality Best Poster Award

This work was among the finalists for the Best Poster Award of the 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR).