Together Porting: Multi-user Locomotion in Social Virtual Reality

We present a design prototype that demonstrates new locomotion techniques for social virtual reality experiences. Specifically, we showcase three teleportation-based techniques which, together, support users as they join other groups of people, and help them move together in virtual environments. The new interactions include a technique to join a group with option for adjacency, the ability to "reverse teleport" a user to your own group, and finding a consensus on where to teleport together. We argue that our new locomotion techniques maintain the simplicity of current teleportation-based techniques while supporting new interactions with people. We present our design prototype so that we can explore how new teleportation-based techniques can be designed to better support prosocial behaviour, but also highlight their potential to disrupt social experiences in social VR.