Ready Worker One: Is VR the missing piece in your work-from-home setup?

It would be ideal to work from home all the time, many of us thought, until we had to do it. For me, like many, it almost worked well. The space I had for my home office was almost big enough. But the desk was too shallow, and so my monitor was always just a little too close. My “co-workers” — my cats, wife, and children — were great companions. But they were a bit rowdier than expected. I was so close to having a perfect work from home setup, but still so far away. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pep%C3%A9_Le_Pew" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Le Sigh.</a> <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:426/1*3G7M3zsjNGL7QvYLgE0rug.gif" style="height:240px; width:426px" /> My work from home setup was.. less than ideal. Having experienced this, I yearned for the final 20% improvement that would take this from a near miss, to bliss. As I talked about my aspirations with friends and colleagues, I realized I was not the only one with work from home office issues. People were working from cramped nooks, attics, kitchen tables, and even closets! <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1000/1*WL1yArhdm23C2uG8nrWkow.png" style="height:398px; width:1000px" /> Here are just a few examples of the tight spaces people were working in… makes me claustrophobic! Yet, as I heard people’s stories, many of the same, familiar problems emerged… bad lighting, lack of privacy, lack of space… and I began to wonder if VR could help. Consider the envisioned setup below. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*BGtVuM_2Cra6R2WbaJWfgA.png" style="height:525px; width:700px" /> Even workers in tiny homes can enjoy a spacious virtual workspace. Even though the desk is too shallow for a physical monitor, this user works in relative comfort using virtual monitors, all while blocking out distractions like his noisy roommates. Could VR be the WFH silver bullet? To investigate this idea, we reviewed 430 self-published images of software developer home workspaces, identifying the challenges that developers encountered “in the wild” when setting up their home offices. We then used speculative design (like the drawing above) to imagine if VR could solve these issues. <a href="https://betterprogramming.pub/ready-worker-one-b2bba36413ad">Visit Now</a>