News · March 2024

Collaborate remotely with VR

Extended reality, which covers virtual and augmented reality, is changing how people collaborate remotely and making workplaces more inclusive. A headset puts people in the same space from anywhere.

A man wearing a headset stands opposite a colleague, each on a marked spot.

Enhanced presence and immersion

Remote colleagues can speak and move within the same virtual setting, rather than watching each other through a row of video tiles.

VR games and simulations use the same medium to make learning and training far more interactive, and at events and conferences remote attendance widens who can take part and cuts the cost of travel.

Where the medium already helps

How VR changes who can take part, and how it feels once they are there.

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Geographical accessibility. Team members enter the same virtual environment and speak in real time, wherever they are based.
A services officer in a headset waits at the foot of a verandah in a remote community.
Inclusive work environments. A virtual meeting can give someone who cannot easily reach a meeting room another way to attend.
Three people gather around a table model, examining it together.
Virtual events and conferences. Participants move between talks, meet each other and join workshops remotely, in a shared virtual venue.
Two people select speech tiles beside a display.
Accessibility features. Real-time captions and transcription can make an event more accessible to someone who needs them.
A facilitator talks through a flow diagram and sticky notes on a whiteboard.
Reduced costs and impact. Replacing a physical venue and the travel to it can reduce travel costs, venue costs and associated emissions.
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Diverse audience engagement. Participants from different countries and industries can meet through the same VR event.
An adult wearing a headset faces a head-and-shoulders conversation partner.

Update, August 2026

This article was first published in March 2024. Since then, PTR has built on these remote-collaboration ideas with live digital twins and AI roleplay practice for remote conversation practice, alongside the PTR VR Library for facilitated remote sessions.

See digital twins, AI roleplay practice and the PTR VR Library. As VR improves, it keeps moving beyond gaming into how people work and spend time together. Find out more about the Immersive VR Library, or talk to us about a demo.

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Digital twins. A twin that holds a conversation on screen, by voice, or in a booked call.
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AI roleplay practice. Rehearsing a remote conversation before it happens for real.
Two people compare VR Library scene cards at a table.
The PTR VR Library. Facilitated remote sessions, delivered from PTR's ready-to-run catalogue.
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