How Brands Creatively Hosted Virtual Offsite Meetings
MeetingsHow Brands Creatively Hosted Virtual Offsite Meetings
As the world continues to move in a remote-first direction, it's important to consider how to make your company's in-person events remote-friendly.
Even if you don't always do remote events, the remote option is great for anytime your team is spread around the world.
But, a virtual offsite meeting? Sounds oxymoronic. How can you have an offsite, that doesn't feel like work, virtually?
In this post, we'll take a deep dive into how these brands thought about virtual offsites in a creative way. And didn't just ask everyone to be on Zoom for 8 hours.
1. Loom VR Virtual Offsite
At the end of 2020, Loom decided to host a virtual offsite. What made this different than attending an 8-hour Zoom meeting?
Well, first, the company sent VR headsets to their team to allow employees to feel like they were leaving their homes for a large company meeting they used to travel for.
We just announced our @loom offsite being done in VR and us shipping everyone an Oculus headset. The smiles. 🙂 — Vinay Hiremath (@vhmth)
December 10, 2020
According to Loom, "with virtual reality, we were able to send everyone an Oculus Quest 2 headset to bring the virtual world to them. Plus, we were able to limit Zoom content to only two hours per day to keep the content engaging."
Once they got started with virtual reality, they had to find virtual reality...
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