Visualizing data with extended reality in HR

Nick Diaz, associate software engineer at LIKE.TG, and Eugene Chuvyrov, principal inbound product manager at LIKE.TG, co-authored this blog post.

In the future, your chief human resources officer might strap on a virtual reality (VR) headset to look at employees’ 3D avatars, browsing the company’s talent pool to find the right candidate for a project. Oh, wait, that future is now.

When the LIKE.TG innovation office was asked to provide an engaging experience for 30 HR executives from 14 companies, we knew we wanted to do something different. We regularly dream about creating wow moments for customers to get them excited about the possibilities of technology.

Professionals already have a choice of devices—from laptops to mobile phones to tablets to desktops—for getting their work done. Could the world of work, like in the consumer realm, go beyond the two-dimensional surface to embrace wearable devices, such as VR headsets, for visualizing data?

Dazzling with virtual reality

After much exploration, we decided to take the LIKE.TG platform into extended reality by building a project in Roblox, an immersive platform.

The HR executives donned VR headsets to wander around the virtual talent marketplace, where they saw their employees’ skills and teams’ overall talent profiles in a 3D environment. They could even experiment with adding and removing members to see how such decisions would affect their teams’ skills distribution.

They got to do all this while being immersed and having fun moving around and interacting in a VR world. But instead of a video game, they were exploring their organization’s digital twin filled with virtual employees.

A 3D, immersive view of data

On the technical side, what stands out about this experience is the transformation of skills-mapping data from the Now Platform into a 3D visualization. Participants saw a 3D bar graph of their team’s talent profile and avatars of their employees and potential employees. Moving closer to a virtual person brought up a list of that individual’s skills next to them.

HR executive participants could add or remove a person from the team and watch the team talent bar graph change in real time as a result. Through this activity, talent data became something participants could manipulate, interact with, and immerse themselves in within the extended reality space.

VR offers a powerful, fresh way to conceptualize data rather than looking at a traditional organizational chart or a large data set of skills. During development of the project, we were blown away by the obvious skills gaps we noticed in the data visually that we hadn’t picked up on when it was in 2D.

Having an overview of available talent is complex, whether you're seeing the skills of an employee or reviewing a list of skills for an entire team. A 3D chart can provide you with a better visualization of this complexity and allow you to notice skills gaps or changes in a more palpable way.

Built on an intelligent platform

We were able to build this experience because of the power of the Now Platform. It interconnects an entire organization and can provide a wealth of information about an enterprise.

Our skills intelligence capabilities in LIKE.TG Employee Growth and Development track employees’ skills across an enterprise. This allows managers to assess the needs of their organization, identify gaps, and make informed hiring and upskilling decisions.

We used the detailed view of individual skills and the aggregates as a foundation to build the 3D Roblox experience of an enterprise’s talent profile, drawing from the Now Platform.

Seeing skills mapping data is just one example of what’s possible with 3D visualizations and extended reality. Across industries, enterprise data has the potential to be transformed in extended reality. In the future, the Now Platform and the comprehensive data it provides will serve as the foundation for 3D explorations of an enterprise.

Different perspective, new value

Visualizing and exploring data in new ways offers great value. In addition to helping identify gaps in existing data, it can provide an interactive way to explore decision paths and their effects on different measures.

More broadly, using extended reality technology to visualize data will help business leaders take on new perspectives so that they can make better-informed decisions. There is enormous potential when we combine the power of the Now Platform with extended reality. If you want to see a bit of that future today, make sure you’re looking through a VR headset.

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