VR has emerged as a new technology for business since 2018 when it is predicted to achieve $407 million from PGi’s news. And after Covid-19, businesses should consider more in order to build internal VR platforms like VR meeting for their staff who can work without going to the office.
But some businesses still don’t get it simply because they cannot find much trustworthy information and real partners to help them. In this article, BAP will show all of the understanding of what VR meeting systems help businesses.
1. What is VR meeting system?
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For this concept, we can simply understand that VR meeting system (virtual reality meeting system) is a meeting service through virtual space where it looks like people join a VR meeting room and talk with each other.
We believe that VR meeting system will bring more real experience for business than virtual tools on the market such as web conference, teleconference, or video conference. Simply because we can see gesture, or face of our partners to communicate better to them.
2. VR meeting advantages and disadvantages
The boom of VR technology makes businesses get more successful, so there are some VR meeting advantages:
- Budget
People can save budget as they can meet together in reality through Virtual Reality with the real image.
- Expanding space
Business can connect people around the world in meetings without being limited to the expo area. For example, business creates a vr meeting room that their staff can join around the world for discussing, talking like in the real world.
- Stay more focused
This makes people remember longer because they will focus on the surroundings in vr meeting, and there are no distractions causing them from the outside.
- Time-controlling
Everyone can control their time well if they want to go out temporarily, they just need to leave the headset in a short time, and then they can come back to the vr meeting room after that.
- Cost-saving
Business can save costs because they don’t need to pay so much for many sections like hotel room, travel tickets, … in each conference.
- Guarantee security
Their in-house team can control the security of information, so they can share ideas freely via vr meeting system.
- Reduce emissions
Business can contribute to protect environment, when their staff doesn’t travel, or drive much, this reduces the plenty of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere.
Also, VR meeting system still gets some disadvantages:
- Hardware necessity
This is the first point of vr meeting system, all of the people must be equipped with the headset for joining the meeting, or conference. Headsets have various prices on the market, and some are not costly.
- Networking source
If a business wants to attend the vr meeting, they must connect wifi or something like 3g, 4g, or 5g for vr meeting.
- Need to have a battery – The lifetime of vr headset just lasts 1h30 – 2 hours for use.
- Uncomfortability – users must take a lot of hours to wear a headset which makes people feel bad at first.
- A little influence for users
Some have complained that they feel motion sickness when touching VR technology, but this relies upon people.
Although there are some pros and cons, VR technology is enhancing day by day.
3. Comparison of VR meeting and normal online meeting
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When it comes to VR meetings, many businesses always want to get compared between normal online meetings.
There are reasons why VR Meeting systems get better:
- Feel their presence better:
People in meetings that can feel they are together than online meetings.
- More real reaction:
Which means that attendees can chat with each other at once, and they can have a talk with people who sit next to them without interrupting another meeting like an online meeting.
- Limited disturbance:
Due to the fact that everyone will wear a headset, so they can stay more focused on their screen only in meetings.
- Take real action:
It means people can do something like drawing, pointing on the shared whiteboard as in the real world. Or even they can take wefies, selfies with ease, play games, which makes it better than normal online meetings.
We can see that what vr meeting expresses better than online meetings, and we can be sure that in the future, it is an integrated part of our society from work to individual life.
4. Some VR meeting apps for business
4.1. NEUTRANS BIZ
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This is quite a common application for business that is a start-up technology. The app allows people who can join VR space at the same time, or they can see the visual data despite brainstorming in meetings, conferences.
Also, businesses can take advantage of whiteboards to create their ideas, use timepieces in VR rooms as in the real world. Or people can share kinds of data such as 3DCG and CAD if they want.
Available gadgets: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows Mixed Reality.
And this app is now closed for beta version, and businesses can check costs on their website.
4.2. Rumii
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It is also famous as a VR meeting app for business, evolved by Seattle IT company Doghead Simulations.
They contain all of the functionality as the above including whiteboard, screen sharing, and 3D model, and users can customize their avatar, meeting space as they want.
But if a business wants to get more features, they must pay about $14.99 a month, which is not a high price compared to others on the market.
Supported devices: PC VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Window Mixed Reality, and it also works on Windows PC, Android OS, or Mac OS.
4.3. VIVE Sync
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This is emerging as a vr meeting, conference application, developed by HTC of HTC Vive published on November 8th 2019.
There are 2 prominent points of this app that businesses should take into consideration:
- Security
When using VR meeting space of this app, staff can share information freely because VIVE Sync is integrated and controlled by the internal system. Furthermore, businesses are also able to design and customize the system if they want.
- Easy-to-use
The app is not hard to use, and the app can integrate with Office 365 so that people can share information via email with all of the attendees. The method of the app is so easy when participants just scan QR code on VIVE by phone to go into the meetings.
- Various functionalities
The app allows users to take screenshots, video recordings, so they can use information of VR meetings with ease in the real world.
- Capacity of participants
Business can hold a meeting in a VR space where it contains 20 employees, and they can touch 3D models in this space as well.
5. Why you should choose BAP as partner to develop VR meeting
5.1. VR meeting app – Story of BAP’s success
BAP is proud when we have developed a successful VR meeting app for our partner, this sacrifices not only business, but their end-users. Some basic and advance functions in which we built up:
- End-users can watch the same content like they sit together in the real world, or even they are able to touch things in VR space.
- On this app, end-users can customize their avatar with many functions such as changing body, hairstyle, eye colors. We are sure that every end-users will be unique according to their style.
- Join the conference or organize an event on this through sliding on the whiteboard.
- Participants can talk and discuss with each other directly as in reality
We can tell that this is one of our success projects about VR. In this project, we not only suggest ideas for business based on requirements, we recommend the technologies that they should apply to get the perfect app.
5.2. Speed of project
As a pioneer, we help so many businesses get successful in each project, our customers evaluate the speed of completion for their products.
For a prominent example, for each vr meeting project can last 4 months, but if your business chooses us like a partner who will help you shorten a half time.
Although VR technology helps business so much with many applications like vr meeting systems, it still gets some disadvantages. And we predict that VR will become the popular technologies for businesses down the line.
This is time for your business to find a partner as BAP. As we not only recommend for customers from ideas to technologies that they should apply including AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Web service,… If your business needs our advice, please contact us below.
