Breathing new life into boring video conferences with gaming features

UK-based Cosmos' virtual office layout comes with meeting rooms, lounge areas, gaming zones or recreation zones and allows the user to move virtually as he would in the real world

For the past one-and-a-half years, professionals have been stuck at home working. The initial euphoria of being at home and working is now moving to burn-out due to the constant need to be on video-conferencing. The initial excitement of seeing colleagues on video calls is now more about being there with audio ‘on’ but video shut.

While players like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meets have seen huge spike in usage and revenues, the real intention of these video calls has been lost. There is no sense of social connection. But that does not mean that the fatigue in the virtual