What is VirBELA?
VirBELA is a cloud-based virtual world platform designed to enable remote work, events, and collaboration through immersive 3D environments. It was created in response to the remote work boom sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic as an alternative to traditional video conferencing apps.
In the VirBELA world, users create customizable avatars to represent themselves. Multiple users with avatars can occupy a shared virtual space together, such as a virtual office, auditorium, or trade show floor. This creates the feeling of being in the same physical location together. Avatars mimic natural movement and body language for life-like interactions.
Key features of VirBELA include:
- Customizable virtual workspaces including private offices, meeting rooms, auditoriums, trade show floors, and more
- Video chat capabilities
- Screen sharing between avatars
- Spatialized audio for natural conversations
- Support for full team collaboration as well as larger events and conferences
- Avatar customization to create lifelike representations of team members
By bringing distributed teams into the same virtual location, VirBELA facilitates better communication, collaboration, and company culture compared to traditional remote work. The natural interactions through avatar movement and spatial audio also lead to higher engagement than 2D video conferencing apps. Major companies using VirBELA include IBM, Airbnb, and Roche.