In today’s world of COVID 19, almost everyone, if not everyone, is aware of the mixed reality tools. Some of you who use these tools might also be wondering what these tools are. They a more commonly known as Zoom, Microsoft Team, Google Meet and Slack. these mixed reality tools allow people from all over the world to meet in virtual locations. Merging real world and the virtual world has had its pros and cons, but that is a story for another article.
However, mixing these two platforms have employees to produce and maintain new environments. For example, the employees who relied on upon in-person office interaction, as recently as 9 months ago now have the freedom to work from anywhere. They are now standing on a virtual tropical island, or even virtually “stand” in front of a crowd giving their presentations. This had also led to maintaining banter and team spirit with the use of timely gifs and emojis, mixed into their daily work messages.
However, the people who work in an above-mentioned way are well aware of the fact that these experiences are just the tip of the iceberg. Augmented technology has become far more regular with companies who deal with product offerings, along assembly lines, and even in surgeries. Now 42% of Americans are working from home. This is expected to be the case in the foreseeable future as the pandemic lingers. New forms of mixed technologies are being developed every single day to make our lives easier.
How Will The New Technology Help The Companies?
It is no secret that once a new technology is introduced, the old one gets cheaper. These new mixed reality applications will help companies cut costs and boost their revenues. Many companies are already using them to shrink their real-world office footprints. They plan to reduce it about by one-third. This will result in far-flung and more energetic employees. Some might be surprised to hear this, but many office employees are more productive when it comes to working from home.
As for the longer-term companies, they will also use mixed reality. They will be using mixed reality to create conditions for remote collaborations. It will also include innovation, that is as good as or even better than in-person. Below listed will be the key areas where early versions of multidimensional “collaboratories” can be seen. They are improving knowledge worker productivity and collaboration.
Virtual Offices
Teams in the worlds largest offices use virtual offices. They use mixed reality programmes like Sneek and Pukkateam. They create a feeling of togetherness even when they are far away. A mouse clicks away, teammates can instantly turn a snapshot into a live video call. For teams that prefer not to display their actual images throughout the day, other programs like Sococo rely on avatars to bring employees together across continents in illustrated virtual offices complete with conference rooms, guest waiting areas and pantries.
Virtual Focus Groups
It is no secret AI’s are in demand. Virtual platform Remesh enables companies to tap into the kinds of insights. Theses insights are collected from small focus groups. That too through massive digital surveys, without the drawback of being one-sided or bias.
Virtual Collaboration
Collaboration is everything. Due to collaboration, people discover new things and even improve their current projects. When the pandemic struck, many companies were forced to freeze projects and research and development. Some turned to collaboration tools like online sticky notes, shared digital whiteboards and live co-editing of wikis, slides and documents to bring people together.
