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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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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...

Avoiding a muting of minds: why 3D workspaces are better for creativity than video calls
As remote work becomes the norm, video calls or meetings are undoubtedly a useful and cost-effective way to stay connected with colleagues. But they can be mentally and physically draining. Moreover, we’ve long suspected that video conferences perform poorly as forums...

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
"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?...

Be you in Glue: dress your avatar for work in our new range of clothing and headgear
HELSINKI—MARCH 17, 2022—Glue Collaboration, the leader in collaborative, real-time VR software services, today announced a new version of Glue, including clothing, hats and head coverings that give users the opportunity to fully express themselves in the virtual...

Why most of your business meetings will soon take place in the metaverse
Bill Gates has made many bold predictions. From projecting the growth of personal computing to calling for better pandemic preparedness long before COVID-19, the philanthropist has been right on many counts. Recently, he offered another striking prediction: Within the...

Glue’s new audio upgrade: making it easier to hear and be heard

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
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...

Best use cases of virtual collaboration – when to gather in VR
Between video calls, email and tools like Slack, remote workers have plenty of ways to communicate with colleagues. Yet the 2D online tools we use every day can often be a poor substitute for face-to-face meetings, especially when close collaboration is the order of...

Axel Springer: rediscovering the feel-good factor in remote meetings
To those in the media industry, Axel Springer needs little introduction. The Berlin-based company is one of Europe’s largest media groups and is at the forefront of digital publishing, with operations across more than 40 countries. It runs major titles like...

Boost your productivity in Glue with Miro, Salesforce, Slack and more
The average business uses 88 applications, according to a recent study by Okta, the identity-management software company. In large organizations and technology businesses that number rises to more than 150, demonstrating the appetite among increasingly remote teams to...

New Glue supports third-party apps like Slack, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace — and brings more avatar goodness
HELSINKI— JUNE 10, 2021— Glue Collaboration, the leader in collaborative, real-time VR software services, today announced a major new release that comes with a host of new features and usability improvements to elevate your virtual collaboration experience. "We...

Virtual collaboration: for healthy, happy and productive remote workers
Microsoft has confirmed what everyone already knew: a day packed with video calls is stressful. In a recent study, the company assessed the effect of back-to-back video meetings on the brain wave activity of a group of volunteers. The study found that they “can...

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
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
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...

People treat VR experiences similarly as real experiences
People treat VR experiences similarly as real experiences. That is one of the key conclusions from a 5-year systematic review of VR and emotion literature done by Markowitz, D. M., & Bailenson, J.N. They reviewed the state of immersive VR and emotion research...

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 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
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” 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
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
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
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
“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
“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” 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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...

The COVID-19 transformed the business operations
McKinsey & Company in their article “Fueling digital operations with analog data” brought up interesting insights about four irreversible shifts that have transformed the operations landscape. The trigger of these changes is the COVID-19 pandemic that pushed...