The Accidental Arrival of the Cubicle
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The Accidental Arrival of the Cubicle
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#2private office > cubicles > open office layouts.
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#3private office > cubicles > open office layouts.
Where do VR offices fit in? [1,2]
[1] http://assets-jpcust.jwpsrv.com/thumbs/nqfIhMYO.jpg
[2] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/i-worked-in-a-vr-...
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#4What companies in the Bay Area don't embrace the open office structure today?
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#5private office > cubicles > open office layouts.
Where do VR offices fit in? [1,2] [1] http://assets-jpcust.jwpsrv.com/thumbs/nqfIhMYO.jpg [2] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/i-worked-in-a-vr-...
Some circle of hell no doubt, but I don't remember my Dante well enough to gauge which exactly.
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#6private office > cubicles > open office layouts.
Where do VR offices fit in? [1,2] [1] http://assets-jpcust.jwpsrv.com/thumbs/nqfIhMYO.jpg [2] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/i-worked-in-a-vr-...
I think it entirely depends on whether workers get out ahead of the curve and embrace them and own the VR environments.
If people stop and consider VR desktops might be a serious improvement over the current open office hell.
You can be relatively impervious to visual and audio distractions not of your own design.
They will probably allow even more work from home as the technology of avatar visuals improve enough that people feel like high bandwidth personal communication between people is possible and comfortable.
The darkside is that VR and AR have very high ability to monitor your moment to moment attention.
They have very high ability to completely control your environment without your input.
If management controls that, it will be an evil thing.
Either a heaven or a hell, depends on workers taking ownership.
I like to stay positive but given how little backbone workers have shown in being herded into open offices, I'm not sure how it will go.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where do VR offices fit in? [1,2] [1] http://assets-jpcust.jwpsrv.com/thumbs/nqfIhMYO.jpg [2] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/i-worked-in-a-vr-...
I think it entirely depends on whether workers get out ahead of the curve and embrace them and own the VR environments. If people stop and consider VR desktops might be a serious improvement over the current open office hell. You can be relatively impervious to visual and audio distractions not of your own design. They will probably allow even more work from home as the technology of avatar visuals improve enough tha…
Right now VR environments are still "barf machines". Some people are working on handling the balance problem, but it will be more than just messing with the inner ear.
Instead we might get something like the ball from Lawnmower Man. Heh. Or complete neural bypasses like in Matrix etc.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it entirely depends on whether workers get out ahead of the curve and embrace them and own the VR environments. If people stop and consider VR desktops might be a serious improvement over the current open office hell. You can be relatively impervious to visual and audio distractions not of your own design. They will probably allow even more work from home as the technology of avatar visuals improve enough tha…
Right now VR environments are still "barf machines". Some people are working on handling the balance problem, but it will be more than just messing with the inner ear. Instead we might get something like the ball from Lawnmower Man. Heh. Or complete neural bypasses like in Matrix etc.
It's not at all true that they are "barf machines".
For a properly installed "room scale" vive installation almost noone experiences any discomfort.
Badly designed software can absolutely still cause sickness but thats on the owner of the Vive.
The headsets are still too hot and bulky.
They don't have good enough visuals for large amount of text manipulation.
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#9What companies in the Bay Area don't embrace the open office structure today?
Probably places like Genentech and many others. Does anyone know the new Cupertino layout apple will employ in their doughnut building?
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#10An anedcote: my boss was PM for building a new building and his claim was that offices with sheetrock and (steel) studs was cheaper than cubes.
We still had cubes. Because you have to have cubes.
And of course the Edifice Complex held - we were sold before everything on the building was done.