We present our work in progress on a novel interactive exploration tool for historical data in virtual reality, which arranges fragments around the user based on their temporal, spatial and categorical proximity to a reference fragment. We then report on an initial expert review of our approach, giving us valuable insights into the use cases and requirements for our further developments.
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.
Multiple collocated HTC Vive setups sharing the same base stations and room calibration files still track their devices in different coordinate systems. We present a procedure for mapping the tracking data of multiple users to a common coordinate system and show that it enables spatially consistent interactions of collocated collaborators.