Exploring an XR Indoor Navigation System for Remote Collaboration

While collaboration in shared extended reality spaces has been extensively explored, larger environments like entire floors or buildings have garnered less attention. To address this gap, spatial navigation and collaboration across realities must be made possible so that users can find each other and foster shared spatial understanding independent from reality. Current developments target either navigation or collaboration but lack the combination. In this poster, we present an extended reality remote collaboration system using an augmented reality (AR) based indoor navigation for on-site and a Building Information Model (BIM) of the physical environment Virtual Reality (VR) system for remote users. We conducted a user study with ten participants (five pairs) to gather initial insights into the system’s usability and preferences for collaborative tools. The results offer initial insights into creating shared spatial understanding across realities. Our work contributes to a collaborative XR navigation system for extensive shared spaces.