Oslo-based mixed reality workplace productivity app Naer has collaborated with digital collaboration platform Miro and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to enable real-time collaboration and brainstorming in mixed reality environments while syncing with Miro boards. Naer facilitates immersive brainstorming sessions, allowing users to simulate office interactions as avatars and collaborate seamlessly both in-person and remotely. The integration with Miro enables teams to document their work in real-time, syncing templates, sticky notes, and assets between Naer and Miro across multiple platforms. With Naer’s aim to improve remote work challenges and HPE’s support for smooth execution and security, this partnership redefines collaboration by merging mixed reality experiences with digital platforms, enhancing creativity and productivity across distributed teams.
Built to facilitate high-energy brainstorming workshops for distraction-free, fully immersive ideation and investigation, Naer helps teams improve their creativity and relationship-building. Naer is the first mixed reality application to allow colleagues to visit the office from anywhere as avatars, as well as collaborate in person. The integration with Miro is designed to help teams supercharge these brainstorming sessions by documenting the work done in real-time to capture every idea, which can then be accessed inside and outside of mixed reality.
Naer’s integration with Miro is the startup’s first full-scale mixed-reality integration with another digital platform. This follows Meta’s selection of Naer as one of the apps that launched with Quest 3 last month.
The integration combines the ‘in-person’ collaborative energy of Naer’s immersive workshops with the ability to plan and document in Miro, eliminating the need for note-taking and allowing more space for collaboration. By acting as a platform enabler, HPE is supporting the rollout and integration of Miro and Naer in the workplace to ensure smooth execution, security and interconnection with other systems.
Full integration with the Miro platform allows for real-time documentation of hybrid, mixed-reality workshops that fit into existing workflows on the application. Teams can sync templates, sticky notes, images and other assets into Naer, with updates automatically syncing with the Miro desktop, iOS, and Android apps, and on browser, allowing for seamless synchronisation of real-world and VR/MR workspaces.
With this new integration, Naer not only helps groups of people work together in the same physical location but also allows remote co-workers to ‘visit’ their office as an avatar. Naer also allows teams to set the mood, change the time of day, and conduct workshops on a virtual cliff edge or in a secluded forest.
Naer’s co-founders, Sondre Kvam (CEO) and Andreas Ore Larssen (COO) applied their backgrounds in design, workshopping and software development to build a solution for the difficult and clunky elements of remote work. From losing focus to struggling with software, Naer’s immersive tools are designed to alleviate the multitude of problems with remote work that were exposed by its rise during the pandemic. Naer is backed by Norwegian early-stage VC firms Skyfall, Startuplab and ProVenture, and also has growing business relationships with companies including Norway’s largest bank, DNB, and Jotun, one of the world’s largest paint and coatings manufacturers.
Miro has grown to become a critical tool in hybrid work environments where distributed, cross-functional teams collaborate on complex workflows. Their digital collaboration services are used by over 60 million people and over 200,000 organisations, including Deloitte, Nike and Ikea. Miro includes six bundles of capabilities built for all stages of the innovation journey in a single tool. These include Product Development and Workflows, Diagramming and Process Mapping, Workshops & Asynchronous Collaboration, Miro AI, Content & Data Visualization and Visual Project Management. The bundles are combined with an open and flexible platform designed to enable enterprises to adapt Miro to their specific needs through integrations and applications. This is all supported by a secure and compliant enterprise foundation, designed to help keep data protected and enable Miro to be easily managed across the organisation.
Built on decades of innovating to advance the way people live and work, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) delivers open and intelligent technology solutions as a service. With offerings spanning Cloud Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent Edge, Software, and Storage, HPE provides a consistent experience, helping customers develop new business models, engage in new ways of working, and increase operational performance. HPE’s focus on future-proofing businesses for the changing patterns of working means that it is central to the successful adoption of Naer and Miro software solutions for everyday use.
Co-founder and CEO of Naer, Sondre Kvam, states: “Naer is on a mission to nurture close-knit teams in remote work. Picture this: you plan a brainstorming session on your computer using Miro. You add a few templates, some reference images, and bits of prior work on the subject. As you close your computer, team members start appearing in your living room as avatars. Digital whiteboards displaying your planned activities materialise on the walls. Within minutes, the room fills with the hum of engaged discussions. As someone places a sticky note on a whiteboard, you notice it’s instantly mirrored in Miro on your computer— the hassle of documentation is gone.”
“The Naer + Miro integration ensures a fluid transition between digital planning and real-world collaboration. HPE’s deep understanding of enterprise needs makes it all fit together, as they enable streamlined rollout and ensure a great fit with any workflow and security setup.”
Sean Winters, Senior Platform Architect at Miro, adds: “Naer is the first company to design an intuitive mixed reality integration with Miro.
This technology is reimagining how teamwork looks in the modern world, enabling groups, regardless of their location, to collaborate in VR/AR and have their ideas stored for posterity outside it.”
Rob Homburg, Lead Solution Architect Extended Reality (XR) at HPE, says: “At HPE we’re pioneering the future of work with an exhaustive ecosystem of devices and solutions that meet the evolving needs of today’s hybrid workers. Our work with Naer and Miro redefines the possibilities for customers navigating digital workspaces to ensure they have the tools that enable them to reach their full potential with enhanced productivity, seamless connection and unlimited collaboration. This partnership embodies our continued focus on the enterprise requirements of reliability, availability and security while providing these innovative tools to our customers.”
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