The Office of the Future: Virtual, Portable and Global

TL;DR

This paper explores how Virtual Reality can revolutionize the future office environment by enabling portable, immersive, and customizable workspaces that overcome physical limitations, highlighting opportunities and challenges in this domain.

Contribution

It presents an analysis of opportunities, challenges, and recent findings related to text entry in VR as a core office task, advancing understanding of VR's role in future workspaces.

Findings

VR enables portable and immersive work environments

Recent research shows promising results for text entry in VR

Identifies key challenges for VR office adoption

Abstract

Virtual Reality has the potential to change the way we work. We envision the future office worker to be able to work productively everywhere solely using portable standard input devices and immersive head-mounted displays. Virtual Reality has the potential to enable this, by allowing users to create working environments of their choice and by relieving them from physical world limitations such as constrained space or noisy environments. In this article, we investigate opportunities and challenges for realizing this vision and discuss implications from recent findings of text entry in virtual reality as a core office task.