hplus0603 said:
Approximately nobody will ever strap on a scuba mask just to have a meeting at work.
Yeah. We've done that at work, but only because we work in games.
I've had a meeting interrupted by a T-Rex smashing the wall and killing team members. It took a few minutes to regroup.
I've had a meeting where people were surrounded by raptors (it was held in someone's base), mid-meeting they all attacked when their owner accidentally bumped a key to ‘attack my target’. Naturally someone jumped onto war drums and started pounding away while panic ensued until the raptors were brought back under control. We switched to a neutral location after that.
I've had multiple meetings in the neutral log cabin (see above) with tiki torches and benches, jumping up to the front to give our standup reports in game clothing. One time listening to one guy give his report in heavy body armor, followed by someone who gave her report wearing a string bikini, followed by a guy in an inflatable Rex costume. That was a weird one, hearing the voice and seeing the bikini model.
I've had a meeting where the boss had to ask people to stop hitting each other with a baseball bat, a golf club, and floppy fish, or at least do it quietly.
I've had meetings in a bowling alley, where we'd throw virtual bowling balls and bowling pins at each other because we could.
VR meetings can be a weird perk of the job. I'm sure people would do more of that if they thought they could get away with it.