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Telework Towers Project
What is Telework Towers?
Telework Towers is a project
that attempts to generate a virtual space
for meetings between teleworkers and
companies looking for their services.
What were the challenges of the project?
Project’s challenge was to create
a meeting place for teleworkers
which somehow simulate
what would be a real office.
In other words, was to generate
a family business environment,
where people who move inside
this environment
should feel they are immersed in a
business context similar
to reality.
That’s why was used, as a metaphor,
a tower or building in which
each a teleworker has its office
and there show their services.
What is a 3d web?
The 3d web was the metaphor or platform
that we use for this project.
A 3d Web comes to be the evolution
of the initial web 1.0,
where only published information,
it was a kind of brochure online.
Then we have the web 2.0
which is much talk about today,
where there is more a concept
of interaction,
where users share information.
The challenge in this project
was to go beyond, is to go to a website
that might be called 3.0,
which includes the interrelationship,
i.e. that there is not only interaction
between people who use this website,
but it there is also an interrelation
among these people.
In this interrelatedness,
the best environment
to achieve this is a 3d environment,
an environment that uses virtual reality.
How improved communication
Virtual Reality?
Virtual Reality seeks to simulate,
as says the word, the reality.
That is, there are many elements
that people use in reality such as a phone.
When I use a phone, I use it to communicate
or to gather information,
is an element that I don't need to explain.
In this way, when I’m in a virtual reality environment
when I see a phone, this already connotes me
these services, if I need information,
I will of course access the phone.
So using this type of objects,
no longer need to explain what this object is used,
because the person already knows.
In a traditional website,
I have many items that can be very helpful
to explain information, but I need to explain
to the user how to use it.
In other words, if I want to display a video
put in virtual reality a TV or LCD,
and people know that there is projected a video;
when I came to my house and I want to watch TV,
the only thing I do is turn on the TV.
In the same way on this kind of web,
or in the virtual reality,
when I see a TV screen or LCD,
I know that I will watch a video on this screen
I don't need to explain it to the user.
How do you imagine the future of Telework Towers?
Telework Towers project has great potential
because it allows you to grow in many ways.
In other words, today the user can
choose different offices,
which gives you more diversity to the building,
as happens in reality;
you don’t enter to offices all identical,
but each company or each person has
their office according to their preferences.
One possibility would be, in future investments
that the user or a teleworker can configure or
parameterize better his office,
i.e. be able to change the color of the walls,
put personal items such as certificates,
pictures or elements of their work or pleasure.
Also you can further enhance
the network behind the project,
where there’s more advanced search,
where we can generate workgroups or
spaces for discussion,
i.e. environments where people through
this platform may have their work meetings
or meetings with clients.
Also the web is improving day by day,
and will incorporate new technologies.