The Humans of DevOps Podcast Series S3 Ep65: Is VR the Future of Remote Work? Ft. Jonathan Schneider, CEO
Jan 24, 2022
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VR Restores Social Presence
- Virtual reality creates a social presence that mimics sitting next to a colleague and sharing work naturally.
- That social presence motivated Moderne to experiment with VR as a way to restore in-person collaboration for distributed developers.
Presence Forces Real Attention
- Jonathan noticed participants must physically turn to face a speaker, which reduces the ability to fake attention.
- That enforced orientation helped increase real engagement compared with typical video calls.
Pairing During A Production Outage
- Jonathan described debugging a production outage with two teammates side-by-side in VR with his screen projected on a large whiteboard.
- A third teammate joined and gained context passively, speeding problem understanding via shared presence.