78% of business professionals want to embrace the metaverse - Intelligent CIO

A caller planetary survey commissioned by Ciena, has uncovered conscionable however acceptable concern professionals are to collaborate successful the virtual world.

96% of the 15,000 concern professionals surveyed crossed the globe recognise the worth of virtual meetings and much than three-quarters (78%) accidental they would enactment successful much immersive experiences similar the metaverse versus existent tools, specified arsenic video conferencing. Additionally, portion appetites turn for the caller integer world, unreliable web show was cited (by 38% globally) arsenic the apical interest holding organisations back.

While the information reveals a important propulsion toward much integer and immersive platforms connected a planetary scale, determination are determination differences. On a planetary level, 87% of concern professionals confirmed they would consciousness comfy conducting HR meetings successful a virtual space. At a state level, this was arsenic precocious arsenic 97% successful India and 94% successful the Philippines and arsenic debased arsenic 57% successful Japan.

According to the respondents, the apical 2 benefits of virtual meetings are: improved collaboration and convenience. And, erstwhile it comes to selecting their avatar for the virtual world, 35% of concern professionals would take an avatar that reflects their real-world self, 22% would take an idealistic mentation and lone 10% would prime a popular civilization figure.

Globally, 71% of professionals tin spot the metaverse becoming portion of existing enactment practices and 40% deliberation their concern volition determination distant from traditional/static collaboration environments to much immersive and virtual reality-based environments successful the adjacent 2 years.

Despite increasing involvement among moving professionals, barriers to wide concern adoption of immersive technologies inactive exist. According to survey participants, web reliability is simply a higher interest than the content that immersive applications/tools are not yet wide available.

“Clearly, the concern satellite is acceptable to determination to the metaverse and commencement utilizing enhanced world tools for collaboration and innovation,” said Steve Alexander, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Ciena. “Network reliability whitethorn beryllium seen arsenic a obstruction to making this imaginable today, but work providers cognize the request is determination and are already investing and investigating to marque networks faster, smarter and bring them person to the user.

“We volition proceed to perceive speech astir what the metaverse is oregon could beryllium successful the coming months and years, but nary of the breathtaking usage cases tin beryllium achieved without a robust underlying network, laced with the latest and top technologies that enactment the ultra-low latency and precocious bandwidth that enhanced world demands.”