Supercharged mixed reality meetings: HPE integrates VR app Naer and digital platform Miro

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With this new partnership, HPE Services, Naer and Miro enable businesses to transform team productivity and remote work by bridging the gap between physical and virtual working worlds.

Guest blog by Sondre Kvam, CEO and Co-founder of Naer

When it comes to our working habits, a new dawn has broken. Thanks to a pandemic-induced workplace revolution, hybrid working has become the norm, with physical office visits no longer considered a necessity. In its wake, business leaders and employees are scratching their heads over how to hand-pick the best bits of remote working – flexibility and independence – and to sunset some of the worst, such as endless virtual meetings and waning co-worker relationships. The goal remains to create a hybrid solution that supports productivity, creativity and culture for everyone, whether your office is at company HQ, your kitchen table or somewhere more enviable.

This is why at Naer - the mixed reality workplace productivity app backed by Meta - we’re proud to have partnered with HPE and digital collaboration platform Miro. Together, we’ve created an integration that takes our high-energy brainstorming workshops to the next level. And what’s more, we’re the first of our kind. 

Naer - available for headset download from the Meta Store and Miro Apps Marketplace - is the first mixed reality application that allows colleagues to visit the office from anywhere as avatars and collaborate in person. Teams can slip on a headset to enjoy distraction-free, fully immersive team ideation with seamless real-time documentation thanks to our latest Miro integration.

As you throw virtual sticky notes onto whiteboards within Naer, they’ll appear immediately on your chosen Miro board, seamlessly bridging the gap between your working worlds. This supercharges team brainstorming sessions, with every idea captured and accessible both inside and outside of mixed reality. It’s never been easier to plan, host and document distraction-free hybrid and remote workshops. And by acting as our platform enabler, HPE Services has supported the rollout and integration of Miro and Naer in the workplace to ensure smooth execution, security and interconnection with other legacy systems.

A recent Microsoft study of 5,000 Microsoft software developers found that workers were more productive and happier when working remotely, however hybrid work situations failed to result in greater productivity or job satisfaction. (See this ZDNet article.) The problem? A lack of time for dedicated “focused work” paired with a steep rise in needless virtual meetings. The same Microsoft study also showed that 58% of workers find it difficult to brainstorm in traditional virtual meetings, while 57% say it’s hard to catch up or contribute well when joining meetings a few minutes late. (See this Microsoft WorkLab report.) With swathes of employees now drowning in back-to-back virtual meetings, which will inevitably result in tardiness from time to time, this amounts to a very big problem. 

At Naer, we’re driven by our understanding that ‘deep work’ and co-worker collaboration are essential for productivity and ideation. That’s why we’ve sculpted our app to facilitate exactly that. We’re solving the challenges that came to light during the pandemic, like lagging focus, clunky remote working tools and software-related struggles. We’re at the forefront of the hybrid working revolution, even selected as one of the few applications to launch with Meta’s latest headset, the Quest 3.

As for our invaluable partners, Miro is used for digital collaboration by over 60 million people and 200,000 organizations worldwide. Miro has become a critical tool for teams across many industries for completing complex workflows, allowing enterprises to tailor software to their specific needs through applications - like Naer - while always maintaining data security and compliance.

Meanwhile HPE is the fulcrum of our new integration, as both our platform enabler and guide in helping companies understand how best to roll out and adopt our technology within an enterprise context. A global leader in edge-to-cloud technology solutions, HPE's extensive experience in delivering open and intelligent technology solutions ensures precise execution and security. Experts in Management of Change, HPE Services helps us understand how to help organizations - even those with more than 10K employees - adopt Naer for their hybrid working needs, as well as how to get everyone on board with the technology and up to scratch on using it. In today’s fast-paced working environments, where digital literacy is a prerequisite, companies must be able to navigate digital workspaces quickly and easily. That’s why HPE ensures that Naer’s Miro integration always runs seamlessly and works within the bounds of large enterprise requirements, with a smooth rollout to employees. (Learn more about IT consulting services from HPE.)

Today almost every business operates some form of remote working policy. That’s why at Naer, with the help of Miro and HPE, we’re working to bridge the disconnect that companies feel between the physical office and their employees working from afar. The future of work is here, and the future of work is hybrid.

Sondre Kvam is CEO and Co-founder of Naer. Contact Sondre on LinkedIn: Sondre Kvam

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