In 2020, one month into pandemic lockdowns, Erin McDannald, CEO of Lighting Environments, asked her staff to start behaving as if COVID-19 was never going away. “If we think it’s going to be here forever, how do we act? What do we do?” So they
picked up and moved their offices to a digital twin of their IRL offices in the metaverse, and they started to communicate using VRChat, which requires headsets. They’re getting real work done.
CES devoted a panel to working in the metaverse featuring Georgina Wellman of Sine Wave Entertainment, which does not require any headgear. Meta’s new Workplace, unlike what it’s name suggests, is more of a bulletin board with video.Whereas Meta’s Horizon Worlds is its equivalent of a metaverse workspace. Other 3D metaverse office spaces (no headsets) can be found in Virbela, MootUp, Teamflow and Topia. And you can find more resources in our database, Workspaces are the kissing cousins of event spaces. Your virtual office doesn’t need to host tens of thousands of workers, it does not have to depend on video, and it
can include more tools for collaboration. |