Digital transformation: VR and AR will revolutionise the office

Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), in particular, are already making an impact on how people work in terms of collaboration, efficiency and generating new, creative approaches for achieving business objectives.

While businesses are already seeing the initial benefits that VR and AR are bringing to enterprise, there are a wide range of potential opportunities that these technologies will present to employees and businesses alike in the future.
Enterprise benefits already being gained from VR

One of the most important way businesses should be viewing VR at this moment in time, is as an essential tool for collaboration.
Tools that have long been seen as standard fare in the office such as conference lines and newer additions such as iMeet, that allow you to share your computer screen and see colleagues via video, are in themselves early examples of virtual reality.

 Instead of requiring all members of a team to physically be together in one place for important meetings and day-to-day catch ups, these tools enable teams to talk and collaborate on important projects from anywhere in the world.
Virtual reality is already enabling teams to come together as though they were in one meeting room, meaning that collaboration and efficiency, and thereby a business’ bottom line, is never jeopardised.

The essence of VR and the driving force behind its impact on enterprise is about bringing people together to collaborate efficiently. Whether it be something as simple as a telephone network for a conference call, or a browser or software app where a team can share documents and annotate changes and the whole team can visually follow everything being discussed.
Enabling teams and organisations to have this level of interaction through collaborative technologies such as VR is already helping businesses to increase efficiency, improve productivity and to provide employees with the work-life balance that they are increasingly asking for.

Headsets and enterprise – the future benefits of AR and VR
While one might automatically associate headsets with VR and being transported to the outer galaxy in a simulator, where headsets will really come into their own for enterprise will be through augmented reality.