Designing the Metaverse
The Workverse
Cultivating Community and Sparking Innovation
Social + game Metaverse- professional, social platform for remote workers.
Purva Gangur, Sanjhal Jain, Riya Gajeshwar
Unreal Engine, Blender,
Mixamo, PremierePro,
AfterEffects, Photoshop,
Dimensions, Figma, Lightroom
October 2023 - December 2023
SERVICE
TEAM MEMBERS
TOOLS
DURATION
Design Process
With remote working, office workers no longer have the medium to build a sense of community in their professional work environment.
While working remotely is convenient in other ways, virtual meetings and chats can not replace the connections we build in-person.
Flexibility and increase
in productivity
Less bonding with the colleagues
Missing out on social activities
Remote employees continued using platforms such as these, but now as a primary method of communication. What about the serendipity of sharing and solving problems together?
REMOTE WORKING MEANS
Let’s use the Metaverse to..
bridge the social gap and
co-exist in a remote community with our colleagues,
while empathizing through bonding activites.
Enter the Workverse
Integrations with established communication platforms
allows for a seamless transition between the metaverse and your technical tools.
Interactive Rings
Rings serve as a visual invitation to meet people you don’t know. Lighter rings indicate someone you don’t know and darker shades indicate colleagues you have previously interacting on the joined platform
Visual invitation to encourage meeting people you don’t know.
Conversation bubbles
Mimics the natrual way people engage in conversations- passed a group talking about something that interests you? Jump into the conversation.
Bubble forms around 2+ people conversing.
Indicates the topic of conversation so others walking by can see and join the bubble.
Teleport to an Interest Space
As a group in the bubble, users have the option to go to a space to do an activity if it is related to their conversation.
It allows for a simplistic and unified lobby design while having unlimited options of interest spaces.
Immersive visuals and sounds create a tranquil atmosphere
Mini-games promote valuable lessons in trust and collaboration, fostering a productive experience.
Proposed interest space
DE-STRESSING ESCAPE ROOM
Space Hierarchy
Caters to a wide range of needs and creative expressions from meeting new people to bonding with your teammates to exchanges ideas in your comfort level.
SOCIAL + GAME METAVERSE
Metaverse Framework
Highly scalable and immersive qualities make Workverse, which bridges the social gap in remote work by creating an immersive, gamified metaverse where colleagues can collaborate, bond, and thrive together, a social + game metaverse.
In this project, we explored the emerging technologies of the metaverse to cultivate a sense of community,
Key Learnings
Aiming to create an inclusive and productive social environment for various purposes, including professional settings.
We emphasized mimicking real-life interactions, such as conversation bubbles, to enhance the realism of the metaverse experience.