AUTHOR=Bonfert Michael , Reinschluessel Anke V. , Putze Susanne , Lai Yenchin , Alexandrovsky Dmitry , Malaka Rainer , Döring Tanja TITLE=Seeing the faces is so important—Experiences from online team meetings on commercial virtual reality platforms JOURNAL=Frontiers in Virtual Reality VOLUME=3 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/virtual-reality/articles/10.3389/frvir.2022.945791 DOI=10.3389/frvir.2022.945791 ISSN=2673-4192 ABSTRACT=
During the COVID-19 pandemic, online meetings became common for daily teamwork in the home office. To understand the opportunities and challenges of meeting in virtual reality (VR) compared to videoconferences, we conducted the weekly team meetings of our human-computer interaction research lab on five off-the-shelf online meeting platforms over 4 months. After each of the 12 meetings, we asked the participants (