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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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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”....

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...

Why a virtual space should be well designed & match the purpose of your virtual meeting? Mark Roman Miller, Neeraj Sonalkar, Ade Mabogunje, Larry Leifer, and Jeremy Bailenson, from Stanford University, conducted research on synchrony in three-person teams and...

It is not a secret that productivity is crucial for the success and growth of any company. That’s why organisations invest in increasing employees’ productivity. One of the best ways to raise your employees’ output is to provide them with efficient collaboration tools...

International Energy Agency (IEA) has published a “Net Zero by 2050” report mapping the changes that the global energy sector should make to reach the goal. This report is especially interesting because it talks not only about how much emissions should be reduced but...

Work-from-home (WFH) become a new norm for many companies after the pandemic. Now some companies go even further and implement a new concept called Work-from-anywhere (WFA), meaning that employees can live where they want. WFA provides geographic flexibility and is...

How the metaverse will remake your strategy? Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has published an interesting article “How the metaverse will remake your strategy” with plenty of real-world use cases for a broad range of industries. In our today's Glue Insight we want to...

“Participants interacting with highly expressive avatars felt more social presence and attraction and exhibited better task performance than those interacting with low-expressive avatars” This is the statement from the results of the research study by Wu Yuanjie, Wang...

IBM Institute for Business Value published a “Balancing sustainability and profitability” report, focusing on how companies should act to protect the environment and stay profitable by adapting to the behaviour changes of the consumers. Travel & mobility is one of...

Immersive virtual reality provides a significant advantage in education. This is concluded in a systematic literature review study by Hamilton, D., McKechnie, J., Edgerton and E., Wilson C., which examined 29 research papers in the field of VR application in education...

Researchers from Cornell University, Negar Khojasteh and Andrea Stevenson Won, have recently published a longitudinal study on collaboration in immersive virtual environments and examine how individual users adapt and work together in VR over time. Glue Team found 3...

“Remote work caused the collaboration network of workers to become more static and siloed, with fewer bridges between disparate parts.” These are the results of the post-COVID-19 study recently published in Nature and performed in 2020 with 60,000+ Microsoft US-based...

McKinsey & Company recently published a report based on data from 3 million designers in more than 100 000 design departments and an in-depth survey of over 250 businesses to identify how design departments can drive the business performance of the company. The...

“Social interactions in VR are very similar to face-to-face interactions.”This is one of the findings from the study “Realistic motion avatars are the future for social interaction in virtual reality” done by Shane Rogers, Rebecca Broadbent, Jemma Brown, Alan Fraser,...

Metaverse was widely discussed two weeks ago at the World Economic Forum at Davos 2022. We took a closer look at the dialogue at Davos as well as checked the Metaverse focused FT Live Panel hosted in the partnership with HCL Technologies. Here are the most interesting...

"The future of our planet depends on business cutting carbon emissions and ingraining more sustainable practices into their operations" states Punit Renjen, Deloitte Global CEO. Deloitte polled more than 2,000 C-suite executives across 21 countries to examine business...