‘Please my corporate life is already miserable enough’: VR company jokes about workers showing up to virtual office, sparking debate - The Daily Dot

While the conception of a ‘metaverse’ has dominated tech headlines ever since Facebook swapped its sanction for Meta, to date, the existent implementation of metaverse bundle has failed to find a foothold successful mundane culture.

Of Facebook’s astir 3 cardinal users, lone astir 200,000 people presently usage Meta’s ‘Horizon Worlds’ virtual world app — down from 300,000 earlier this year. Decentraland, different metaverse merchandise that garnered attraction aft touting $1 cardinal valuations, presently appears to person lone 38 ‘daily active’ users, according to information from DappRadar.

Still, immoderate are desperately clinging to the metaverse bandwagon. One specified institution is VRPark, which boasts that they are a “3D Virtual Reality Company specializing successful the proviso of immersive 3D Spaces for Work, Learning and Events.”

“VRPARK brings integrated interactions backmost to workforces by bringing teams unneurotic successful an immersive virtual world, replicating real-life scenarios,” the institution wrote successful a tweet. “Colleagues tin collaborate and converse with each different seamlessly from virtually anyplace successful a assortment of antithetic settings.”

VRPark has been posting humorous videos to TikTok for implicit a year, with respective of its TikToks going viral. Now, yet different TikTok from VRPark has gone viral and sparked sizeable discussion.

In a video with implicit 191,000 views, VRPark makes a gag astir idiosyncratic not responding connected Microsoft Teams. Instead of waiting for them to log backmost connected and answer, VRPark suggests gathering them astatine their virtual bureau and confronting them ‘in person.’

Many TikTokers who viewed the video reacted negatively.

“How does this beryllium arsenic a business,” wrote 1 user.

“I’d discontinue connected the spot,” stated another.

“Please my firm beingness is already miserable enough,” shared a third. “Don’t adhd VR to it.”

“[we’re] successful the atrocious place,” declared a further TikToker.

However, immoderate approached the thought much optimistically.

“How bash I find a occupation with this large crippled of sims,” asked a commenter.

“OMG this is really cute,” offered a second.

“People saying we are doomed and I’m excited astatine the anticipation of enactment being similar a elephantine crippled of sims 4,” wrote an further TikToker.

The Daily Dot has reached retired to VRPark via email.