This corpus was collected as a part of the research project “AIDA: Action and Intersubjectivity in the Digital Age” (funded by the Research Council of Finland, 2023–2027). The data in the corpus consists of recorded team meetings held in a social virtual reality (VR) environment. In each recorded meeting, there are two to five participants present. All of the participants were familiar with one another prior to the data collection. The language of the data is Finnish. The data collection began in November 2023 and ended in May 2024. The team meetings were held in a commercial VR application called Immersed. Immersed has been designed specifically for co-working between remote participants. In Immersed, people can meet up with each other in public co-working spaces, or private collaboration rooms. Immersed allows people to connect their computer screens to the VR environment, and to share one of the screens with their co-workers. In this data corpus, the participants mostly meet in private collaboration rooms, and share or attempt to share their screens with each other in every meeting. The participants used Meta Quest 3 head-mounted displays (HMD) and hand-held controllers to access the virtual environment and interact with other users. In addition to using controllers, Meta Quest 3 supports hand-tracking, which means that the users can interact with the user interface (UI) without controllers, only with using their hands. The hand-tracking function also depicts the users’ hand movements to other users in Immersed. The participants were recorded from two different perspectives. First, each participant used the HMD to record their first-person perspective of the VR environment. Second, in most cases, the participants’ physical environments were recorded with GoPro cameras. The sounds were recorded with the HMDs’ built-in microphones. The corpus includes 11 recorded team meetings. The duration of each the meeting ranges approximately from 30 minutes to 2 hours. The whole corpus amounts to approximately 14 hours of video recordings (approximately 690 GBs).

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