The Glimpse Group does a lot of events in hopes of gaining new clientele. My supervisor,Chris, is the one going to these events majority of the time. He goes to speak about our goals and who we are as a company. For this particular event, since it was at Fordham University School of Business (Columbus Ave) and close to the office, Chris asked me to help out. He told me he needed help setting up and gave me the task of running my own VR station. Whenever I had a VR experience, it was always set up for me, all I had to do was put the headset on. You can imagine I had no clue what to do. Also the VR experience I would be setting up was for a subsidiary I had never worked with, which was D6VR https://www.d6vr.io/. They focus mainly on graphs, charts and numbers for business meetings (which in my opinion is boring). So I had a boring station and in charge of setting up tech I never used before. Great. The odds were against me but I couldn’t help that I wanted to go and see what Chris did when he participated in these events.
Upon our arrival, the staff at the university were very helpful and we were able to set up right away. I had practiced setting up the VR station at the office so I was pretty confident I could help the student have a great experience. Once the students arrived, I instantly became so shy and could not network for the life of me. I was barely able to hold a conversation. The most I could do was explain the VR experience and tell them that this was great opportunity, which was good but I wanted to converse more. I just didn’t know how to begin a conversation. There were also other VR experience stations that weer much more fun, so my station didn’t attract many people.
In the end, the event was successful since Chris came to my rescue and began talking to the students in my station. But also, Chris was able to make a great speech on the great AR/VR was have at The Glimpse Group. This event taught me, I need to work on my networking skills and be more open to starting a conversation with others because you never know how those connections could benefit you in the future.
