UBS Swiss Bank issued to traders helmets for work in virtual reality

At the end of September, 2020 the UBS Group AG bank decided to make an experiment and issued to traders helmets for work in augmented reality. They imitate work of a trading floor at home, helping employees to interact with each other.

On transition to AR bank the pandemic because of which many employees should work from the house pushed. The management wants to recreate usual working conditions for employees who cannot go back to normal work yet to make their interaction more effective.

If people cannot come to office yet whether we can recreate this Wednesday in virtual space? - Beatrice Martin the head of UBS in Great Britain (Beatriz Martin) offered. - We consider possible experiments with available tools.

UBS Swiss Bank issued to traders helmets from Microsoft for work in virtual reality

The London traders pass into the AR mode using a helmet of virtual reality HoloLense from Microsoft, however the bank reported that it is ready to try also other tools within the experiment. For example, the bank suggests to install in houses of traders additional monitors to which images from the cameras located at their colleagues will be output. According to the management of UBS, such format will also simplify interaction between employees.

UBS is the first bank which submerged traders in augmented reality. Other investment banks try to decide so far how it is safe to return the employees to office despite a pandemic. On Wall Street plans for return to work of staff of Goldman Sachs Group, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Barclays failed, and banks had to isolate groups of traders after identification caught a coronavirus. Deutsche Bank stopped trying to return employees in New York and notified them that before opening of the new headquarters in 2021 will not require their return to office.^[1]

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