Meeting in the virtual world

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Could virtual offices provide an alternative to endless Zoom calls? Ed Bulter speaks to Jeremy Bailenson, director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, about the phenomenon of 'Zoom fatigue', and why virtual reality could provide a solution. Phillip Wang, CEO of the startup Gather, shows us round his virtual office platform that combines video conferencing with old-school video game graphics. Ed tries out a meeting in virtual reality with Anand Agarawala, CEO of the VR platform Spatial. And Marc Bena from PwC explains why interest in virtual meetings is growing among businesses.

(Photo: A virtual meeting on VR platform Spatial, Credit: Spatial)

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0:00.0	Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Today, who's Zooming
0:07.1	who? The challenges of the virtual conference. The default assumption on all of these platforms is just
0:13.5	to pollute you like a fire hose of gestures where you've got all these faces and they're all
0:18.8	staring right at you. Today, Zoom fatigue for those stuck at home.
0:23.3	Is it finally time virtual reality delivered a friendlier business meeting?
0:28.3	You see me in 3D.
0:29.5	You're actually seeing a 3D lifelike avatar.
0:31.3	We get to have eye contact.
0:32.8	We get to have body language so I can gesture over to the wall to the presentation or PowerPoint
0:36.6	I might be referring you to. All these little subtle cues you don't get in a Zoom. That's all to come in Business
0:42.1	Daily from the BBC. All right. Hi guys. How's everyone doing? Good. I have microphone's not working.
0:52.2	Hold on. I can hear you.
0:54.7	Hi, Becky. It's working.
0:55.4	Hello, how are you?
0:56.1	Hello.
0:56.8	Shall we go through the next few days' stories?
1:00.9	For those of you who may have spent too much time over the last year doing battle with online conference calls for work,
1:07.9	here's a world exclusive for you.
1:09.9	Does this sound familiar at all?
1:14.6	Fray.
1:16.0	Hey, mate, mate.
1:17.8	Hello?
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