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Choosing the right virtual space for your meeting

Choosing the right virtual space for your meeting

Different kinds of virtual spaces impact work productivity, creativity, and well-being in different ways, much like real-world environments do. In one of the largest studies of its kind, Stanford VR researchers have just shown how the size and location of virtual...

5 reasons why businesses are investing in VR in 2023

5 reasons why businesses are investing in VR in 2023

With remote work seemingly a permanent fixture in the business world, companies are exploring new ways to maintain team unity and productivity. Our solution to this, of course, is the use of Virtual Reality (VR) collaboration technology to allow employees to join...

2022 in Review: XR made further inroads into the enterprise

2022 in Review: XR made further inroads into the enterprise

2022 will hardly be remembered as a vintage year for extended reality (XR) and immersive technologies. A slowing economy and tech industry belt-tightening dominated the headlines. And we were even told that crypto’s woes could spell the end of the metaverse (narrator:...

Metaverse beyond the hype

Metaverse beyond the hype

Every day technologists, developers and business executives peer into their crystal balls to predict how the metaverse will take shape. As a network of immersive 3D virtual worlds, the metaverse has the potential to transform the way we socialize, game and shop, as...

5 ways XR can help to reduce the footprint of your company

5 ways XR can help to reduce the footprint of your company

In recent years, extended reality (XR) software has gone from a niche technology to something that’s changing the way we work. Every day, there are more examples of how it’s being used in the workplace—in everything from virtual collaboration to training to remote...

The new Glue: improved virtual collaboration

The new Glue: improved virtual collaboration

HELSINKI—OCTOBER 20, 2022—Glue Collaboration, the leader in collaborative, real-time VR software services, today announced a new release of Glue, bringing new features and updates for even better virtual collaboration. Among the highlights are new organization-level...

The four challenges of remote working and how to overcome them

The four challenges of remote working and how to overcome them

Even as businesses bring their teams back to the office, remote working remains popular across many sectors. Tech workers, for example, are still spending on average more than half of their work week at home, enjoying the freedom, flexibility and reduced commuting...

Glue Customer Showcase: IQM

Glue Customer Showcase: IQM

IQM is a leading quantum computing hardware company and a key player in Europe's vibrant quantum ecosystem. Having partners and customers all over the world, it is essential for IQM to have an efficient way of presenting its world-leading technology. IQM’s challenge...

Creating presence in VR: why it matters and how we do it

Creating presence in VR: why it matters and how we do it

Presence, as every good virtual reality creator will tell you, is fundamental in VR. You often hear it described as VR’s ‘secret sauce’. It’s the feeling of being physically present in a virtual world. Or, in the words of journalist and author Peter Rubin, it’s “what...

Glue Customer Showcase: T-Systems MMS

Glue Customer Showcase: T-Systems MMS

T-Systems Multimedia Solutions (MMS), a division of Deutsche Telekom, supports large corporations and medium-sized companies in their digital transformation with around 2,100 employees at nine locations. Having remote team members and customers asks for an efficient...

Is your VR avatar as expressive as you are?

Is your VR avatar as expressive as you are?

In real-world interactions much of our communication is nonverbal. Gestures, facial expressions, head movements and eye contact help us convey what we’re feeling and get our message across. Nonverbal behaviors are just as important in virtual reality. While we...

Why you need immersive VR education in your workplace

Why you need immersive VR education in your workplace

The great thing about interactive and immersive experiences is that you remember them.  Writing this, I recall a visit to a museum in Stockholm twenty years ago where I spent an hour in an exhibit plunged into total darkness to experience what it’s like to be in the...

Why your company needs a custom virtual office

Why your company needs a custom virtual office

For anyone designing an office space, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. Every business is different. But well-designed workspaces do tend to have a few things in common: they support creativity, collaboration and learning; are flexible enough to adapt to...

Four ways 3D workspaces boost team cohesion

Four ways 3D workspaces boost team cohesion

"Technology and workplace tools are, for all intents and purposes, the new workplace," Harvard Business Review declared last week. But with remote and hybrid work on the rise, which kind of technology best engenders collaboration and connection between virtual teams?...

The new Glue supercharges your remote collaboration

The new Glue supercharges your remote collaboration

HELSINKI—NOVEMBER, 2021—Glue Collaboration –the leader in collaborative, real-time VR software services, today flicks the switch on the latest release of Glue, bringing new features and updates to enhance remote collaboration for teams everywhere. Among the highlights...

VIVE Focus 3 + Glue: new level of immersive meetings

VIVE Focus 3 + Glue: new level of immersive meetings

If anything’s certain in the post-pandemic era, it’s that remote working is here to stay. Nine in ten large companies are embracing hybrid work, a model that lets employees work partly from home, according to a recent McKinsey survey. What’s also clear is that remote...

Understanding Group Behavior in Virtual Reality

Understanding Group Behavior in Virtual Reality

In today’s Glue Insights, we’re talking about how the use of VR over time influences group behavior. “Understanding Group Behavior in Virtual Reality: A Large-Scale, Longitudinal Study in the Metaverse” study uncovers interesting insights into how large groups...

5 reasons why businesses are investing in VR in 2023

5 reasons why businesses are investing in VR in 2023

With remote work seemingly a permanent fixture in the business world, companies are exploring new ways to maintain team unity and productivity. Our solution to this, of course, is the use of Virtual Reality (VR) collaboration technology to allow employees to join...

Social interactions in the metaverse

Social interactions in the metaverse

The concept of social presence and how it affects social interactions during virtual meetings hasn’t been extensively researched. But, a recent paper on social interactions in the metaverse light upon the potential of the technology. The research investigated the...

Why working from home will stick

Why working from home will stick

We've talked about the benefits and drawbacks of remote work or work-from-home (WFH). But, why should we expect that WFH will persist? A recent working paper by Barrero J.M., Bloom N. & Davis S.J. studied why working from home will stick and they base their...

Top Strategic Technology Trends 2023

Top Strategic Technology Trends 2023

Starting 2023 with “Top Strategic Technology Trends 2023” from Gartner. The report identified 9 technology trends, each of which drives either (1) business optimization, (2) scaling of the business or (3) pioneering and reinventing business models. Metaverse is one of...

2022 in Review: XR made further inroads into the enterprise

2022 in Review: XR made further inroads into the enterprise

2022 will hardly be remembered as a vintage year for extended reality (XR) and immersive technologies. A slowing economy and tech industry belt-tightening dominated the headlines. And we were even told that crypto’s woes could spell the end of the metaverse (narrator:...

How WFH feasibility affects firm performance

How WFH feasibility affects firm performance

Today we highlight interesting results from the paper on the firm’s digital resilience and work-from-home (WFH) performance. The key finding of the research is that firms with high pre-pandemic WFH feasibility had higher net incomes, sales, and better stock market...

Value creation in the metaverse

Value creation in the metaverse

“Value creation in the metaverse” is an insightful report from McKinsey & Company talking about the emergence of the metaverse, the factors driving investment, how consumers and businesses are using it today and may in the future, its value-creation potential, and...

VR is an effective tool to raise environmental awareness

VR is an effective tool to raise environmental awareness

A recent study investigated the effects of different degrees of immersion and different levels of navigation freedom on emotions, the feeling of presence, and participants’ intention to change their environmental behavior. The results are worth highlighting! The...

Metaverse beyond the hype

Metaverse beyond the hype

Every day technologists, developers and business executives peer into their crystal balls to predict how the metaverse will take shape. As a network of immersive 3D virtual worlds, the metaverse has the potential to transform the way we socialize, game and shop, as...

Benefits & disadvantages of remote work

Benefits & disadvantages of remote work

Global Forum on Productivity (GFP) analyzed how remote work influences productivity and well-being among managers and workers in 25 countries during COVID-19. As our insight today, we have highlighted the main benefits and disadvantages of remote work according to the...

Into the Metaverse and beyond

Into the Metaverse and beyond

“New realities into the Metaverse and beyond” a report by Wunderman Thompson talks about the impact of the metaverse across industries, including the workplace and how the way people work changes. According to the survey included in the report, 85% of participants...

6 VR training domains business can leverage

6 VR training domains business can leverage

“A Review on Virtual Reality Skill Training Applications” study examined 48 VR training applications to validate the VR training effectiveness. The study concluded that VR training is well suited for the following six training applications: 1. Workforce training For...

How hybrid working from home works out

How hybrid working from home works out

“How hybrid working from home works out” a remarkable working paper by Nick Bloom, Ruobing Han & James Liang identified the benefits of hybrid working from home in an experiment held together with Trip.com, a global travel agency. The experiment revealed 4 key...

Effect of avatar representation on prosocial behaviour

Effect of avatar representation on prosocial behaviour

Stanford University researchers Herrera, F. and Bailenson, J.N., examined the effect of avatar representation, choice and head movement on prosocial behaviour. The results showed that being able to customise the avatar leads to a significantly higher social presence...

5 ways XR can help to reduce the footprint of your company

5 ways XR can help to reduce the footprint of your company

In recent years, extended reality (XR) software has gone from a niche technology to something that’s changing the way we work. Every day, there are more examples of how it’s being used in the workplace—in everything from virtual collaboration to training to remote...

Benefits of the metaverse for business

Benefits of the metaverse for business

Deloitte recently published a comprehensive “Welcome to the metaverse” report covering the topic from different points of view, and in today's Glue Insights we wanted to highlight the identified benefits of metaverse for businesses. Benefits of Metaverse for...

The new Glue: improved virtual collaboration

The new Glue: improved virtual collaboration

HELSINKI—OCTOBER 20, 2022—Glue Collaboration, the leader in collaborative, real-time VR software services, today announced a new release of Glue, bringing new features and updates for even better virtual collaboration. Among the highlights are new organization-level...

XR and its potential for Europe

XR and its potential for Europe

How can XR positively contribute to environmental sustainability? 🌳 Immersive experiences can impact sustainability by providing solutions to change people’s habits towards more sustainable behaviour. Behaviour change takes time, but there are already clear examples...

Gains from VR/AR solutions

Gains from VR/AR solutions

EU Commission published a VR/AR Industrial Coalition Strategic paper comprehensively talking about the opportunities, challenges and potential of the industry to digitalise the working processes of enterprises. As the main Insight, we’ve chosen to emphasise the...

Work from home benefits

Work from home benefits

Aksoy C.G., Barrero J.M., Bloom N., Davis S.J., Dolls M., & Zarate P., in their recent paper on “Working from Home Around the World”, conducted a global survey of working arrangements in 27 countries and conclude the pros & cons of remote, hybrid and full-time...

The four challenges of remote working and how to overcome them

The four challenges of remote working and how to overcome them

Even as businesses bring their teams back to the office, remote working remains popular across many sectors. Tech workers, for example, are still spending on average more than half of their work week at home, enjoying the freedom, flexibility and reduced commuting...

The efficacy of VR training

The efficacy of VR training

“Virtual reality-trained participants had significantly higher accuracy and produced fewer timeouts than those trained using non-interactive methods, demonstrating a successful transfer of skills between virtual reality and the real world.” This is a result of the...

What businesses plan to do in the metaverse

What businesses plan to do in the metaverse

PwC conducted a survey of over 5K consumers & 1K business leaders to find out how companies use metaverse now & what they expect from it in the future. And in fact, 82% of executives expect metaverse plans to be part of their business activities within 3...

Four major remote work challenges

Four major remote work challenges

The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak changed the way millions of people work. Bin Wang, Yukun Liu, Jing Qian, Sharon K Parker explored the challenges of remote workers in the paper “Achieving effective remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic: a work design perspective”....

Glue Customer Showcase: IQM

Glue Customer Showcase: IQM

IQM is a leading quantum computing hardware company and a key player in Europe's vibrant quantum ecosystem. Having partners and customers all over the world, it is essential for IQM to have an efficient way of presenting its world-leading technology. IQM’s challenge...

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