Facilitation Meets VR

We’ve done something very exciting here at Voltage Control. This past holiday, we shipped a headset to each of our team members so we could hold our annual party virtually within a space we created using?AltspaceVR . While it wasn’t perfect — I built the room myself with very little training — it allowed us to explore the technology ahead of our upcoming Control The Room Summit, which will be incorporating VR as part of its hybrid component.

Read more about the future of VR and Facilitation HERE!

After running our third annual Control The Room facilitator summit as?a remote event in 2021 , we’re?back at Austin’s Capital Factory on February 2nd?for a hybrid event . For those that can’t join us there, or simply prefer virtual, we’ll be utilizing Zoom, MURAL, and AltspaceVR to bring everyone together despite the physical distance.

Ultimately we decided to virtually present the conference in a space built within AltspaceVR. We won’t, however, be forcing people into the VR environment, those joining remotely can participate via Zoom if they don’t have a VR headset, or download the desktop version of AltspaceVR! We will be raffling off several pairs to Control the Room ticket holders because we want to encourage everyone to experience how VR can be deployed in the facilitation space.?

Regardless of how people are joining us digitally, we’ll have hosts monitoring the VR and remote platforms to ensure a feedback loop between the in-person and distanced attendees. VR and Zoom attendees will be able to interact and ask the keynote speakers questions, live, via the platform hosts. As you can see, we’re attempting to create as much connective tissue amongst the disparate environments as possible.?

Control The Room will be our first time holding a hybrid meeting with this much technical complexity, and I look forward to sharing our post-event experiences with you.?

Want to witness our VR integration firsthand? Join us in-person or virtually at the Control The Room 2022 Summit. Single-day in-person tickets, virtual tickets, and tickets for separate workshops are all available! You can find more details?here .

?Douglas Ferguson | President, Voltage Control

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4th Annual Facilitation Summit

Deepen your knowledge on how to facilitate meetings that matter and connect with other facilitation and meeting practitioners.

Covid Safety Protocol

• Proof of negative COVID test?48 hours prior to attendance. Grab a test while they are still in stock at Amazon.
• Proof of vaccine, we will accept this in physical or digital form.
• Masks?required while indoors.
• Prepackaged lunches?delivered to tables to minimize congregation.
• Hand sanitizer?at each table.
• Sanitation stations?will be accessible at multiple locations throughout the venue.?
• Limited max attendees?to allow for social distancing. The venue has a max capacity of 240 people and we will limit it to 100.?

If these protocols are not sufficient to make you feel comfortable to attend or travel is just out of the question, we highly encourage you to consider our virtual options. We have some really cool stuff planned, involving live connections to those in the room and immersive virtual reality experiences!

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