VR work and meetings

- Picture this. You have a new product prototype to deliver to market in just a few weeks, but the marketing, design, and engineering team are not able to meet to review the prototypes. Getting it wrong could cost you thousands, if not millions of dollars, and possibly your job. What would you do? Luckily with virtual reality such a scenario can be avoided. In this lesson, I will show you how companies are using VR to meet, collaborate, and save time to market along with other surprising benefits. Many industries are adopting VR solutions to create, collaborate, and communicate more effectively than ever. In architecture, miniature models are useful, but nothing compares with the ability to scale up and walk around the architectural designs. In VR, simulations are so realistic. You can walk through the house on a one-to-one real life scale, and instantly change the look or color of services, examine the views from each window, and lighting conditions of each room. VR can also help engineers identify and solve critical building issues such as the electrical safety of the built environment. But how exactly do they collaborate? Well by putting on a headset teams can meet in VR the same way you would with a video meeting code. You can put on your headset, select the room, enter a code, and you'll find yourself in a room with your colleagues. You can have meetings, share slides and presentations, and move around the room to speak as you would in real life. In VR, your prototypes can be placed on a table and you can walk around and inspect it or scale it up to actual room-scale. Airbus has been using VR software tools for aircraft design to visualize incorrect parts using 3D digital models. The advantage to this approach has cut the time it takes to inspect 60,000 fuselage parts from three weeks to just three days. There are hundreds of meeting and work platforms in virtual reality. Verizon has launched a virtual workspace. Facebook launched Horizon Workrooms. Google has Spatial, and there are at least 100 more Like pre-built websites, you can simply use a space that has already been designed, or you can hire someone to design the space for you with your company color and logos, and maybe even make an exact replica of your current office or showroom. Maybe they could even make you a better one like that corner office of your dreams. As you can see, meeting in VR can help you collaborate and communicate, and it also has one other surprising advantage over video conference services. It's social. Meeting in VR has proven to boost morale. Once a VR meeting with team I was working with had just ended, and as we stood around, exchanging thoughts and jokes, someone said, "Hey, you know what? "I forgot we're in VR." "This is fun." "Sometimes I even forget it's work."