An Extended Reality Solution for Mitigating the Video Fatigue of Online Meetings

Much of the issue with video meetings is the lack of naturalistic cues, together with the feeling of being observed all the time. Video calls take away most body language cues, but because the person is still visible, the brain still tries to compute that non-verbal language. It means that participants are working harder, trying to achieve the impossible. This impacts data retention and can lead to participants feeling unnecessarily tired. The solution presented in this chapter aims to transform the way online meetings happen, by turning off the camera and simplifying the information that our brains need to compute, thus preventing video fatigue. The immersive solution developed, iVXR, consists of cutting-edge augmented reality technology, natural language processing, speech-to-text technologies, and sub-real-time hardware acceleration using high-performance computing.