Monday, July 25, 2016

Upwork Newswire: 4 Ways Virtual Reality Will Digitize Your Workspace

Bearded man in 3d virtual reality glasses over dark background is clicking on white virtual icon

This bi-weekly column features the latest freelancing trends and Upwork’s role within them.

Fast Company | This Is What Your Future Virtual-Reality Office Will Be Like

Technology has already changed how and where we work. But as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies leave their “early, awkward adolescence,” their impact on how we work will be profound.

“When you add cameras to VR or AR displays or headsets, you start to discover the interactive person-to-person potential of the technology.”

In this Fast Company article, Upwork CEO Stephane Kasriel identifies four ways VR is poised to change the workplace:

  • Eliminate videoconferences in a way that will “make Skype calls look primitive.”
  • Supercharge virtual whiteboards by putting them in share VR environments
  • Move models from 2D to 3D, so you can interact with them
  • Create powerful new ways to design and test new concepts

Today, VR technology can be clunky, and the hardware is both expensive and intrusive. When VR matures, however, it will remove barriers and erase distance as a barrier to working together—one pixel at a time.

Learn more about the virtual workspace of the future by viewing the full article here >

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