Office Communication Technology of the Future

The majority of knowledge workers in 2020 are familiar with mixed reality platforms such as Zoom, Teams, and Slack, which allow them to meet in virtual locations. By fusing the actual and virtual worlds, new landscapes may be created. Employees who only nine months ago relied on face-to-face interactions in the workplace now convene on virtual tropical islands. Practically “standing” in front of worldwide broadcast displays. Maintain team spirit and humour by including current GIFs and emoticons into their workstations.

However, these are only the tip of the iceberg in terms of mixed reality offers. Augmented reality technology are already commonplace in product offers, production lines, and even surgery. With 42% of full-time U.S. employees planning to work from home in the near future,

These new mixed reality apps can assist organisations in lowering expenses while increasing income. Many of the firms we deal with utilise them to minimise their physical office footprint by one-third on average and to empower remote workers, many of whom are already more productive when working from home without travelling.

Virtual workplaces

Almost a decade before the pandemic, technological pioneers began employing large-screen video “portals” to connect distant workplaces via informal and continuous video streams. As this technology advanced, many corporations began to experiment with virtual neighbourhoods to keep their multinational teams linked.

The reason behind this is that when members of a remote team couldn’t see each other, they felt detached and alone. Their morale suffers as a result of a lack of chance encounters, as does their capacity to collaborate and develop.

Teams from the world’s leading financial services firms and merchants now collaborate in virtual workplaces utilising mixed reality programmes like as Sneek and Pukkateam. These foster a sense of community by presenting colleagues mosaics with regularly updated images of who is at their workstations, on the phone, or enjoying coffee and maybe conversing.

Focus groups conducted virtually

Virtual focus groups driven by artificial intelligence are also in high demand, allowing businesses to go beyond what is feasible in conventional conference rooms. Companies can benefit from the sorts of information gained from small focus groups thanks to virtual environments developed by platforms such as Remesh. But on the scale of enormous computerised polls, without the drawback of just gathering one-way feedback.

Some, however, did not skip a beat, turning to collaboration tools such as online sticky notes, shared whiteboards, and live co-editing of wikis, presentations, and documents to bring people together. This summer, we worked with one bank. In a virtual office, for example, discovered that it could also build and launch a new line of business and digital banking product. And in a fraction of the time it took for another product a year ago. He flew folks in to brainstorm in person.

One of the primary reasons for this achievement was the use of video, phone, chat, and collaboration technologies, which provided greater opportunity for all team members to contribute. Rather of being drowned out by persons with loud voices or a noisy environment,

More ideas were exchanged and critiqued concurrently in multi-editor collaboration tools than would have been possible with a live facilitator on a whiteboard. And, unlike another mysterious whiteboard shot, the results were quickly prepared and digitised, allowing them to be utilised in reports and documentation.

Realms of mixed reality

We’re starting to get a sense of what the future of mixed reality work will look like. A year ago, no one would have believed that we would work from home on the scale we have now. Nonetheless, practically every big organisation we interact with today requests solutions to make virtual work more sustainable and productive.

This will fuel the next generation of mixed reality, with solutions such as artificial intelligence technologies that can optimise “chance” meetings across teams and roles. Affordable smart home boards and massive multi-monitor displays will transfer virtual collaboration from laptop screens to a more immersive full-size format; 3-D printers will allow design teams to physically test prototypes all across the world from the comfort of their own homes. Fast home delivery around the city using drones of virtual happy hour goods like paint and wine kits for items that can’t be created at home.

The mixed reality technologies that are becoming popular now, like the grainy Skype conversations that preceded today’s Zoom explosion, are going to be much outmatched in the near future.