Their take on remote working spaces is an interesting one for people who perhaps lack a good work space and I agree the idea is enticing. I imagine working in a collaborative space with my colleagues but also other friends in other jobs in the same virtual space. On paper it sounds great. But I worry that spending too much time in a virtual world, will rid the need for people to build and live in their spaces in the…
The Apple Vision Pro and the future of workspaces
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Re: The Apple Vision Pro and the future of workspaces
#12Having actually spent a lot of time doing work in VR on a Quest 2 with Immersed, I disagree about the eye projection and AR being gimmicks. The thing that ruins VR for me is the complete isolation from my surroundings. I want to be able to bring my virtual work into the real world, and I want people to be comfortable speaking to me while I have the headset on.
The benefit of not using AR, but instead using VR, in a workplace is that you can spend less on office space. You can take any room and stuff it with small phone-booths where each worker is in a VR world. You don't have to spend money on a canteen, just feed the worker with a tube in the booth while they are in a virtual restaurant. You can probably get four times as many workers in the same space as the open offices…