Where VR meetings are heading in a decade and the future of immersive collaboration from wifi

8/15/2021

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It’s not often that virtual reality initiatives are met with such enthusiasm or the need for virtual collaboration is so great as during these post pandemic times. Enter VR collaboration meeting mode!

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Since virtual meetings were introduced in January 2016, there have been a lot of exciting features released and positive feedback from users around the world on its growing capabilities.

With this growing attention to VR meeting, there have been many questions about where the future of meeting technology lies. It’s natural to want to know what will happen next in VR/AR and how we’ll be able to leverage it together with other technologies (like AI) over the next decade.

One area that is already witnessing great interest from enterprises is around immersive co-presence. This is especially for those looking for a true remote working solution or dispersed workforces who can’t easily meet face-to-face due to geographical challenges.

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Corporate meetings are often so expensive these days and require travel time — thus employees are usually reluctant to attend these business events; when they do go, they rarely retain any information from them because there’s a lot of inefficiencies in IRL meetings. With VR, companies can hold VR meetings allowing workers to attend the event wherever they are. This leads to better retention and an upsurge in employee engagement levels around these virtual events.

Given that businesses are looking for solutions to reduce costs and increase ROI, this is certainly something worth investigating further as a viable option for their next team meeting or corporate event.

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One company that is currently doing just this is MeetinVR . Founded by Riz Awan following his seven-year stint working with various Fortune 500 companies including Coca-Cola, Philips and Microsoft, where he developed many unique features on top of Skype that were then used globally across the globe (some of which have now been discontinued).

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VR backgrounder

VR has evolved from a virtual world of video games and now to virtual meetings. As VR meeting is set to become the technology that will change attendance at meetings, virtual meeting platforms are evolving into virtual work environments where people can communicate freely with one another while being in different locations. Meetings are projected to be about 50 percent virtual by 2020; virtual meetings will occur daily rather than monthly.

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Virtual Meeting

The use of VR meetings and immersive tech meetups are becoming increasingly popular. The majority of businesses working with AR/VR find them useful for training purposes but less so when it comes

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VR/AR’s potential is vast and the possibilities are endless. VR changes how people communicate, collaborate, train and do business around the world. It will impact different industries in multiple ways: for instance virtual meetings which have been used mainly as a training tool by most businesses using VR technology but now can be see to become part of enterprise meeting solutions

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Landscape with their ability to bring both efficiency gains and opportunity address some globalisation challenges today such as communication barriers between cultures or difficulty travelling abroad due to time zone differences, whether you’re on the Oculus Store, HTC Vive, or with other participants over spatial apps that give space a new meaning, along with your avatar and access to VR headsets for the perfect session with your team. No doubt your productivity is bound to go up naturally because in this industry every customer is learning to assume their new role, whether designers, or just in there for creativity, you’re bound to build and express your creativity.

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VR collaboration Tools

So VR computer technology will revolutionize the way customers and developers meet and collaborate in a decade. But what VR collaboration tools are there available today that can be used right now? Today, many VR platforms have several VR apps that help facilitate remote work, to connect with others, and manage projects effectively. Some of these VR collaboration tools include:

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VR voice chat

VR remote meetings allow participants to be more connected than ever before. Virtual conferencing allows people from around the world to come together as if they were present at the same time for conversations and presentations. In addition you can also record or stream live virtual reality meeting platforms. is an app that enables group communications within VR environments via audio, video and text chat features. It wasVR/AR’s potential is vast and the possibilities are endless. VR changes how people communicate, collaborate, train and do business around the world. VR will impact different industries in multiple ways. Virtual meetings, while currently used for training purposes by most businesses using VR technology, are likely to be a significant part of the enterprise meeting solutions landscape in less than 5 years because they bring both efficiency gains and opportunity to address some of today’s biggest challenges with globalisation.

Meeting Solution landscape

Meeting Solutions have evolved since video conferencing became widely available over two decades ago. The first reason is their low cost; it has never been easier to hold meetings. However, that ease comes at a price when you need them

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Types of Collaboration

VR/AR has the potential to have a huge impact on our future. It can change how people communicate, collaborate and even do business across borders- all in an immersive environment that changes what we see as reality. Virtual meetings are currently used for training purposes by most businesses using

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VR technology but they will soon be available for everyday work like global collaboration or presentations from remote locations because of virtual meetings’ efficiency gains and opportunity to address today’s biggest challenges with globalization, remote workforce, and employee retention.

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Advanced Collaboration

The future of collaboration is virtual collaboration and VR meeting over Oculus Quest, and in the future, AR hardware as well. It allows companies to cut cost, improve employee engagement and retention while providing more

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Flexibility and efficiency for employees in regards to their working hours. Non VR users are especially in for a surprise. The use of VR/AR technologies will continue to expand globally to improve human interaction.

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Feel Connected

Telepresence technologies have been around for a while but it definitely has not had its time to shine yet. The use of VR/AR is becoming more prevalent in the workplace, as more companies are investing in virtual meeting technology because of the high ROI it offers them; especially in an era where budget cuts are happening. A virtual meeting space can offer so much more than a Zoom meeting. Remote collaboration in immersive tech with lifelike avatar makes other participants interact, share ideas with other people, create a space that customizes the app and gives everyone a sense of belonging, focus, note taking, image collaboration,and offices that are more powerful than videos, web, or chat apps.

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Architecture in the Virtual World

VR technology is a meeting solution that can not only make your presentation more dynamic and impactful but also allows you the ability to present to people in new and exciting ways. VR technology has been around for years, and many applications have been developed for it; however, its presence in the enterprise world has been relatively slow despite its impressive capabilities.

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When it comes to VR architectural design, companies are looking at this virtual reality technology as an important way to provide better visualization of projects than traditional methods. With AR/VR, they will be able to photorealistically merge real-world content with computer driven information in a seamless manner so anyone would find themselves immersed in their design without even realizing what exactly happened. By bringing these two aspects

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Current Technologies

Virtual reality/augmented reality technology has limitless potential. VR can change how people communicate, collaborate, train and do business around the world. The different industries will be impacted in many ways ranging from virtual meetings which are currently used for training purposes by most

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businesses using VR to replace real-life ones because they offer both efficiency gains and opportunity to address some of today’s biggest challenges with globalization that was made possible thanks to this new form of communication medium.

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What will happen in next 10 years

By 2028, VR will be used by most businesses to collaborate and make decisions. By then, we’ll have a fully immersive experience of attending meetings with holograms projected in the real world that are so convincing they’re like being there in person! These meetings will be a combination of real and virtual.

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VR Collaboration Solutions

Remote working solutions continue to rise, and are creating a permanent change in enterprise meeting environments across the globe. Because of this change, Fortune 500 companies and private users are keen to explore the possibilities of VR collaboration. Within the past five years, has signed many

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VR Collaboration Solutions and Conclusion

The use of Virtual Reality in everyday life is increasing quickly. More and more businesses are acquiring virtual reality headsets to train their employees and conduct meetings with clients around the globe. While virtual reality has been used for training purposes by most businesses using virtual reality, it will soon be available for everyday work like global collaboration or presentations from remote locations because of virtual meetings’ efficiency gains and opportunity to address today’s biggest challenges with globalization, remote workforce, and employee retention.

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