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Virtual Reality at the service of effective diversity
Diversity; a strategic choice As showcased earlier (see previous post on High performance teams) high performance teams function on the basis of twelve interrelated traits grouped into three higher order ‘families’: team culture, team structures, team processes. Zooming into our model, we highlighted that out of all three dimensions [...]
EEG and VR: A general review
Virtual Reality headsets can be seen as the epitome of human-technology interaction, with the human senses being almost completely taken over by the experience. Since becoming readily available to the consumer market, VR headsets have come on leaps and bounds in a short space of time. While others may argue, [...]
VR meetings the future of meetings and events?
For many businesses it seems to be that conference calls have become the norm for when it in impossible to get everybody in one room at one time for an important meeting. Thanks to new advancements in VR we can now offer virtual reality meeting spaces, where it is easy [...]
New VR headsets arriving in 2020 and beyond for VR Hire
It might not be the first time we’ve heard predictions like this, but several industry commentators are suggesting that 2020 could be the year that virtual reality (VR) finally gains mass appeal, making it a great time to be bringing out a new headset. Although we’re unlikely to see quite [...]
Finding the right mix: diversity in team roles
The current state-of-the art High performance teams exhibit several interrelated traits, that render them capable of optimal teamwork. Under this light, while a variety of factors influence a team’s performance, we have already highlighted that at the very basis of a high performance team lies a net of attributes that [...]
Pimax Vision 8K Plus Hire
Experience one of the world's most immersive VR headsets to date. The Pimax Vision 8K Plus offers stunning 4K screens per eye and provides an amazing 200 degrees field of view and the tried-and-tested outside-in tracking provides a reliable and extremely accurate 6 degrees of freedom tracking. This VR headset [...]
2020 updated review
There is no better way to bring in the new year by taking a retrospective look at the last, more importantly finding what we are going to be bringing forward with us, and what is left behind. This is no less important for our tech needs. Here at VRE we [...]
Is VR the future of team building?
The benefits of team building to a business has long been proven, even if it isn’t always to everyone’s liking. It can be a highly effective way of generating and maintaining a positive working environment and getting staff to form new bonds with each other. Employees will learn more [...]
High Performance Teams: A Team – Building Blueprint
Running up the steep hill As discussed in our previous thesis, it is key for managers to arm themselves with the knowledge of the team performance-team maturity relationship. In doing so, they are able to identify the nature of groups they are currently working with, as well as the team [...]
The first (and toughest) Team Building question: is my Team really a Team?
Why Teams? Change has grown to be one of a few constants for contemporary organizations (Elrod & Tippett, 1999). In today’s dynamic business landscape, a firm can no longer secure sustained competitive advantage by the employment of traditional strategies. Instead it is the organization’s resilience capacity (Lengnick-Hall & Beck, 2009), [...]
Top 5 VR Team Building Experiences
One of the criticisms you often hear about VR is that it can feel like an isolating experience where you’re thrown into a virtual world that separates you from the real world and its inhabitants. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, there are plenty of games [...]
Varjo VR-2 Review
The top end of the enterprise VR market has become a bit of a crowded marketplace lately, so when Finnish manufacturer Varjo unveiled its debut product offering back in February 2019, with the VR-1 headset, the company needed a unique selling point to ensure it would stand out among the [...]