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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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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...
Avoiding a muting of minds: why 3D workspaces are better for creativity than video calls
As remote work becomes the norm, video calls or meetings are undoubtedly a useful and cost-effective way to stay connected with colleagues. But they can be mentally and physically draining. Moreover, we’ve long suspected that video conferences perform poorly as forums...
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
"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?...
Be you in Glue: dress your avatar for work in our new range of clothing and headgear
HELSINKI—MARCH 17, 2022—Glue Collaboration, the leader in collaborative, real-time VR software services, today announced a new version of Glue, including clothing, hats and head coverings that give users the opportunity to fully express themselves in the virtual...
Why most of your business meetings will soon take place in the metaverse
Bill Gates has made many bold predictions. From projecting the growth of personal computing to calling for better pandemic preparedness long before COVID-19, the philanthropist has been right on many counts. Recently, he offered another striking prediction: Within the...
Glue’s new audio upgrade: making it easier to hear and be heard
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
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...
Best use cases of virtual collaboration – when to gather in VR
Between video calls, email and tools like Slack, remote workers have plenty of ways to communicate with colleagues. Yet the 2D online tools we use every day can often be a poor substitute for face-to-face meetings, especially when close collaboration is the order of...
Axel Springer: rediscovering the feel-good factor in remote meetings
To those in the media industry, Axel Springer needs little introduction. The Berlin-based company is one of Europe’s largest media groups and is at the forefront of digital publishing, with operations across more than 40 countries. It runs major titles like...
Boost your productivity in Glue with Miro, Salesforce, Slack and more
The average business uses 88 applications, according to a recent study by Okta, the identity-management software company. In large organizations and technology businesses that number rises to more than 150, demonstrating the appetite among increasingly remote teams to...
New Glue supports third-party apps like Slack, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace — and brings more avatar goodness
HELSINKI— JUNE 10, 2021— Glue Collaboration, the leader in collaborative, real-time VR software services, today announced a major new release that comes with a host of new features and usability improvements to elevate your virtual collaboration experience. "We...
Virtual collaboration: for healthy, happy and productive remote workers
Microsoft has confirmed what everyone already knew: a day packed with video calls is stressful. In a recent study, the company assessed the effect of back-to-back video meetings on the brain wave activity of a group of volunteers. The study found that they “can...
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 is now compatible with Pico Interactive’s Neo 2 and Neo 2 Eye headsets
VR meetings are replacing or extending in-person meetings and video conferences, while enterprises are investing in new technologies and office designs to usher in the post-lockdown era of hybrid workingBarcelona, Spain and Helsinki, Finland. March 9, 2021 - Given the...
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’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...
The new way of working: live and asynchronous collaboration in a VR workspace
One of the joys of games like Minecraft and Roblox is seeing multiple players build and interact together in a single, three-dimensional world. These games are designed to persist objects and structures in place, allowing you to return to your creations at any time...
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...
Glue takes its virtual collaboration platform to the next level with AI-powered customizable avatars
Glue Collaboration, the leader in collaborative, real-time VR software services, today announced a major new release of Glue.
Glue Customer Showcase: BCG Platinion
BCG Platinion, a division of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), is always ready to embrace new technologies. The company’s latest annual hackathon, held virtually for the first time, was a case in point. Over the successful two-day event, some 50 remote designers,...
Glue Customer Showcase: Fazer
Finland’s world famous baker and confectioner Fazer is a food experience company with the brand promise ‘Northern Magic. Made Real’ But how about ‘Northern Magic. Made Virtual’? Thanks to our collaboration, visitors to the Fazer Experience Visitor Centre in Vantaa...
Immersive audio in Glue: Spatial audio excellence for every remote meeting
As most VR practitioners will tell you, creating a genuine feeling of immersion is hard. To convince someone that they are in another place, we must make a powerful appeal not only to their visual and haptic senses, but their ears too. In fact, audio is often the...
Glue Customer Showcase: Maillefer
Maillefer is the global leader in wire, cable, pipe and tube production technologies. The company is strongly present in all markets worldwide. Today the company’s portfolio includes over 50 technologies. With 22 patent families, with the most technology innovations...
The future of work is here and now
From the beginning, we have eagerly championed Glue as a way to boost productivity across dispersed teams. But as remote working accelerates during the COVID-19 pandemic, our mission feels more important than ever. Happily, immersive virtual collaboration has never...
Make the most of every remote meeting with these five virtual spaces
Human interaction is a delicate dance we perform at work every day. In normal times, it takes place in a variety of settings: we might trade information with our desk neighbors and participate in a workshop with customers, or drink a coffee with a friend and host a...
Remote working the right way
Is the pandemic leading us into a golden age of remote working? A cursory scan of headlines over the past few months would have us believe so. Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke declared that "office centricity is over” and said the e-commerce platform would be “digital by...
User interfaces: Picking the right tool for the job
Decades of two-dimensional user interface design aren’t for nothing. In everything from road signs and phone menus to car dashboards and ATMs, 2D UIs have demonstrated their enduring appeal. Familiarity is crucial to users. But so too is functionality. Those two...