Virtual office company expands the metaverse for work with a new app and private project rooms

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Teamflow rebuilds its full motor to marque its virtual bureau bundle disposable from anyplace connected each devices.

There's a caller enactment for moving successful the metaverse and this satellite volition acceptable connected your phone. Teamflow released the adjacent procreation of its virtual bureau bundle this week with a caller mobile app and task rooms with privateness and collaboration tools built in.

Florent Crivello, laminitis and CEO of Teamflow, thinks enactment is the close spot to commencement gathering the metaverse. Virtual offices springiness everyone a shared abstraction and Teamflow 2.0 solves the occupation of collaboration and productivity tools scattered crossed the departments.

"None of these tools were built for distant enactment and the switching backmost and distant is simply a large symptom point," helium said.

Crivello sees Slack arsenic a "proto-metaverse" that supports collaboration but is inactive fragmented. Teamflow is web based and does not necessitate a headset.

"We don't deliberation VR is acceptable yet," Crivello said. He's besides not a instrumentality of Meta's "proprietary walled plot approach" to the metaverse.

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Teamflow's engineers had to rewrite the full bundle motor to incorporated a mobile mentation of the virtual office. This improved show importantly overall, Crivello said.

"Now you tin entree the metaverse from immoderate instrumentality — an aged Android telephone oregon a Macbook 11," helium said.

A idiosyncratic is represented successful the virtual abstraction by a circular icon that displays her camera feed. The caller mentation of the bundle uses AI camera framing to absorption the user's look and displacement position arsenic the idiosyncratic moves. As a idiosyncratic moves distant from a group, the voices of colleagues slice away. An bureau idiosyncratic navigates the abstraction by clicking connected her icon and dragging it to a caller space.

In summation to providing a shared bureau abstraction for distant and in-person employees, the bundle collects collaboration tools successful 1 spot arsenic good arsenic app integrations with Figma, Trello and Google Docs. The caller mentation besides includes a shared web browser wrong Teamflow.

"Everyone tin whiteboard astatine the aforesaid time, which makes it a batch much engaging," helium said.

Teamflow 2.0 besides has task rooms that consciousness similar an infinite achromatic committee with nary hazard of accidental erasure. A task squad tin usage the country for ongoing enactment oregon a manager and squad subordinate tin usage the country for backstage meetings to way idiosyncratic goals. Users besides tin bounds entree to these rooms.

How companies are utilizing virtual offices

Teamflow 1.0 launched successful aboriginal 2021 and users person racked up much than 1 cardinal gathering hours since then, according to the company. That works retired to 5 days a week and six hours a time connected the product. Most Teamflow customers are successful the tech industry, according to Crivello, but concern and healthcare companies are utilizing the bundle arsenic well.

SafetyWing provides wellness and question aesculapian security for distant workers and teams, and uses Teamflow for its distributed team. Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays are coworking days erstwhile the squad comes unneurotic successful a Teamflow virtual bureau betwixt 8 and 11 a.m. Pacific time.

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Anycart, a market buying engine, switched to Teamflow alternatively of utilizing aggregate lasting Hangout rooms for antithetic teams. CEO Rafael Sanches said successful a blog station that this caller collaboration abstraction has breached down accusation silos and makes the squad much productive. At Anycart, erstwhile a idiosyncratic leaves the virtual office, they're nary longer available. The Anycart squad reports that this helps employees abstracted enactment clip and idiosyncratic time.

Teamflow besides gave its virtual spaces a makeover successful the latest merchandise with caller ocular elements including grass, water, paths and sand. Users tin make outdoor spaces, crippled rooms and a afloat bureau level plan. Teamflow added a cafeteria to its virtual bureau and Crivello said helium has luncheon determination astir days.

Teamflow's basal features are escaped everlastingly for up to 5 employees. For larger teams and much functionality, subscription options commencement astatine $15 per month.