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Glue Customer Showcase: Deutsche Telekom MMS

Glue Customer Showcase: Deutsche Telekom MMS

Deutsche Telekom MMS supports large corporations and medium-sized companies in their digital transformation with around 2,100 employees at nine locations. Deutsche Telekom MMS develops end-to-end experiences, which goes beyond digital with the use of virtual reality...

Staying secure in the business metaverse

Staying secure in the business metaverse

Extended reality (XR) technologies present a wealth of opportunities for businesses to tap into. If you're considering implementing these immersive technologies within your organization, it's essential to adopt a comprehensive security strategy that safeguards your...

The possibilities of AI-powered 3D workspaces

The possibilities of AI-powered 3D workspaces

At this year’s Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon championed virtual reality and artificial intelligence as the future of business. While not the first to do so, his excitement reflects how we’re living in a time of rapid technological advancement:...

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...

Is your workplace ready to welcome the Fortnite generation?

Is your workplace ready to welcome the Fortnite generation?

 Confined to our homes over the past year, many of us have moved our social interactions online. But teens and young adults have been hanging out with friends virtually since long before COVID-19, and not only on Zoom. From attending a gig in Fortnite to building with...

Glue Customer Showcase: Duodecim

Glue Customer Showcase: Duodecim

As the population ages, the number of people in home care is on the rise. This has led to an increase in acute care situations in the home, along with a spike in calls to emergency call centers. But not all cases require an ambulance or urgent treatment: many can be...

Glue launches on the Oculus Store

Glue launches on the Oculus Store

Glue’s arrival expands the possibilities for teams that need remote meetings to be as great as working face to face HELSINKI—FEBRUARY 4, 2021—Glue Collaboration, the leader in real-time virtual collaboration software, today announced the availability of Glue on the...

Say hello to your new Glue avatar

Say hello to your new Glue avatar

Just as Glue is a virtual extension of your office, your avatar should be a natural virtual extension of you. Discover the new Glue avatars, developed in collaboration with Rapport, the pioneers in facial animation To feel immersed in a virtual environment requires...

Spatial audio and video resolution matters in VR 

Spatial audio and video resolution matters in VR 

“Both video resolution and spatial audio rendering had a statistically significant effect on both immersion and audio-visual quality.” concluded recent research on visual and audio importance in VR. When choosing a VR collaboration platform, it’s crucial to consider...

The possibilities of AI-powered 3D workspaces

The possibilities of AI-powered 3D workspaces

At this year’s Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon championed virtual reality and artificial intelligence as the future of business. While not the first to do so, his excitement reflects how we’re living in a time of rapid technological advancement:...

Leading VR use cases of 2023

Leading VR use cases of 2023

McKinsey & Company identified the leading VR use cases in “A CEO’s guide to the metaverse". Let’s have a closer look at them. 1. Brand marketing VR helps to strengthen a company’s brand by creating a unique virtual experience. It can be a virtual product launch,...

Avatars in VR matters

Avatars in VR matters

Stanford research on social interactions inside collaborative virtual environments concluded that participants with head-and-hands avatars felt more connected and present than those with full-body avatars. Here is why: 👇 1️⃣ When using a full-body avatar, a user is...

VR as a communication medium

VR as a communication medium

Virtual reality can facilitate communication that is just as intricate and rich as face-to-face interactions. That’s the finding of the research study on VR as a communication medium. The study found that VR-mediated communication can be as complex and nuanced as...

Metaverse Predictions 2023

Metaverse Predictions 2023

PwC identified six metaverse predictions that businesses can expect to take force in 2023. These are the four most fundamental ones: 1. Businesses will be the metaverse power users 💪 Business applications take the lead with practical use cases such as onboarding,...

VR contributes to the understanding of the climate change

VR contributes to the understanding of the climate change

“VR experiences can make important contributions toward understanding psychological aspects of climate science.” David M. Markowitz and Jeremy N. Bailenson reviewed the connection between VR and climate change and identified how the technology can be a useful tool to...

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...

Gen Z and the Metaverse

Gen Z and the Metaverse

"Global collaboration is the future of the metaverse." This is one of the key takeaways from "Gen Z and the Metaverse" report published by Nokia & Ipsos. As Gen Z has grown up online, they’re accustomed to working online and have a strong interest towards bringing...

Virtual space matters

Virtual space matters

Virtual space matters. A large-scale, longitudinal study on avatars and virtual environments found that spacious, panoramic spaces increase synchrony, presence, enjoyment, and realism.  Panoramic, spacious virtual environments provide a feeling of freedom, and...

Positive impact of VR in education

Positive impact of VR in education

A recent study conducted an experiment where students worked on different tasks in VR for 4 weeks. Participants of the study noted several factors in how VR positively influenced their learning process: 1. Better focus on the presented materials2. No physical...

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...

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