Steelcase and Logitech Introduce Extended Reality Experience for Hybrid Work

In a groundbreaking collaboration, Steelcase and Logitech have unveiled Ocular View, an revolutionary prolonged actuality expertise that redefines digital conversations in at this time’s linked, hybrid offices. This good expertise creates an immersive setting the place individuals really feel as if they’re sitting face-to-face, regardless of being miles aside.

By merging Steelcase’s experience in hybrid collaboration design with Logitech’s superior video collaboration expertise, Ocular View integrates seamlessly with platforms like Microsoft Groups and Zoom. This mix enhances particular person connections, providing a extra private and fascinating digital assembly expertise. In line with current world analysis by Steelcase, the deal with private wellbeing, social connection, and privateness is essential for workers, and Ocular View addresses these wants via its mix of digital and bodily parts.

Ocular View was first unveiled as a prototype at Integrated Systems Europe in 2023, as Venture Ghost, with the intent to grasp staff’ wants for higher hybrid collaboration experiences. All through Venture Ghost’s iterations, the Steelcase and Logitech groups gathered invaluable suggestions for its enhancement, resulting in the ultimate creation of Ocular View, a singular expertise unavailable anyplace else.

Christina Vernon, basic supervisor of distributed collaboration and tech companions for Steelcase, commented:

“Individuals want higher hybrid collaboration choices—particularly in a time the place we’re spending a lot of our day on video— so we needed to create a extra lifelike expertise that will assist fight digital fatigue. Venture Ghost was an experiment to see if folks might join nearly in the identical manner they could over a cup of espresso. What we discovered via all of our conversations and in-person demonstrations was that folks have been craving this type of immersive and distraction-free expertise to essentially enhance their connections with their colleagues.”

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