Individual and Collaborative Interactions with Multimodal Data in Virtual Reality

The aim of this thesis is to develop a system of interaction methods for a multi-user virtual environment.

In the VR environment, several users navigate through world at different scales (world in miniature,true-to-life scale) and need to interact with different types of data presented in this environment. Some interactions are collaborative (all users see what everybody is doing) and some are individual, when the interacting user becomes shut off from the rest of the team and interacts with the data on their own. The task is to develop interaction techniques for the collaborative and individual inetraction mode and to design a mechanism for switching between these two modes.