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What if the hybrid office isn’t real?
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COVID-19 has forced people to adopt new technology to create shared workspaces. It’s only the beginning.
Photograph by Eva-Katalin
I’m sitting with three other people in a meeting room warm wood-effect walls, scooped white leather chairs around an oval-shaped white table next to a bank of floor-to-ceiling windows. We’re high up, although I couldn’t say what floor; the windows face a coastal city, all high-rises and sunny skies, beaches in the distance and turquoise blue water. Looking down at the cars and streets far, far below, I’m momentarily swayed by vertigo and decide that it would be better if I backed away.
Virtual reality is transforming what it means to work from home
Town halls, weekly meetings, and international conferences are increasingly being pushed into virtual worlds
11 February 2021 • 6:00am
When autonomous driving company Five wanted to tell its staff about its latest re-brand, it decided to ditch the Zoom call.
Instead, workers were invited into a virtual game world built specifically for them. Using software called Gather.Town, staff could walk their avatar over to a colleague and immediately start a conversation. You entered this virtual world and you could chat to the people next to you, but people four or five rows away were too far away to chat to, says Stan Boland, the company s chief executive.