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Why Virtual Reality Will Transform a Workplace Near You

By Logan Kugler
Communications of the ACM, August 2017, Vol. 60 No. 8, Pages 15-17
10.1145/3105444
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Collaboration is in. From offices with open floor plans to new apps that promise to reinvent messaging and collaboration, companies find it buzz-worthy and attractive to the bottom line when their teams work better together.

Need proof? Messaging app Slack has a $3.8-billion valuation. In January, collaboration app Trello was sold for $425 million to software company Atlassian. Tech heavyweight Amazon in February dropped Chime, a Skype and GoToMeeting competitor, seeing a potential profit center in the already crowded collaboration market.

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