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Two human participants had to synchronize arm movements in a full body virtual reality (VR) environment with each other. We aimed to evaluate the information-theoretic measures transfer entropy and mutual information in this complex motion synchronization task. Furthermore, in our experiment participants shared a mutual sensation of synchronicity and creativity for their interaction solely based on their movements. 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