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This IEEE conference talk presents "Follow Me: Confirmation-based Group Navigation in Collocated Virtual Reality," a 10-minute presentation from the Navigation and Locomotion Strategies session. Learn about an innovative two-phase, confirmation-based group navigation concept for collocated social VR environments that balances collision prevention with user autonomy. The research team from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar introduces mechanisms allowing users to temporarily separate from their group and rejoin later, using navigator-triggered, passenger-triggered, or mutual confirmation systems. Discover how ghost avatars help prevent physical collisions between spatially desynchronized users, and explore study results (N=24) demonstrating that users appreciated the autonomy while maintaining comparable levels of co-presence, spatial awareness, and collision avoidance compared to baseline techniques.
