RelivelnVR: Capturing and Reliving Virtual Reality Experiences Together

We present a new type of sharing VR experience over distance which allows people to relive their recorded experience in VR together. We describe a pilot study examining the user experience when people share their VR experience together remotely. Finally, we discuss the implications for sharing VR experiences over time and space.

1 Introduction

In their germinal paper on Transformed Social Interaction [1] Bailen-son and colleagues state that VR can allow for unique experiences that change the nature of “reality” such as modifying how spatial and temporal distance are experienced. One common aspect of virtual experiences in VR is that the behavior that occurs in them can be tracked, recorded and replayed [3]–[5] which can provide participants the experience of “time travel.”