The pull of minimal overhead costs and access more efficient collaboration and communication tools has led more businesses to move to virtual operations. While e-commerce and remote work may be the most common applications for virtual space, it’s expanding into new areas of development and delivery of services which benefit both consumers as well as businesses.
Virtual office spaces, unlike traditional offices that require physical space for collaboration and meetings online, offer platforms that mimic in-person interaction using live video conferences and document sharing. This is particularly useful for teams working remotely with a digital workspace that eliminates the need for physical face-toface interactions and cuts down on travel costs.
Other virtual spaces include social spaces in which people interact and socialize, educational spaces, for example online classrooms, e-learning platforms or gaming spaces, like massive multiplayer online games (MMOs), or mobile apps. These spaces typically include the technology of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) to provide immersive experiences.
Platform action is the logic that is running in the background of a virtual environment to make it functional. In an ecommerce app such as eBay, platform action controls how users pay and bid for items. In an application for managing projects such as Trello or Microsoft Teams it regulates the way tasks are assigned and is managed. It’s important to build robust platform actions in virtual space because it creates an easy experience for users and business users.