Health Security for XR Co-Working Spaces

In the domain of hotels and food service, there has been a long practice of regulating their cleanliness and the health and safety implications have become important enough to warrant their own departments such as the FSIS (Food Safety and Inspection Services) in the United States. Despite the existence of such government bodies, the majority of our interactions with hospitality services relies on trust and market correction. For example, if a waiter spit-shines the dinnerware or there are bedbugs within the sheets of your Air B&B, you would never consider repeat business to the establishment and would likely take your complaint to Yelp, Tripadvisor, or another platform. Though failures within this system are frequent, a high standard of cleanliness is to the benefit of all parties and, furthermore, it’s an expected part of hospitality services.

Public and shared spaces for XR have risen substantially since 2016, in some places to the point of becoming commonplace. VR has established itself as a visualization tool for products, architecture, and enterprise, so it is often found on the floor of expo centers and conferences. Museums and galleries have embraced VR as means of distributing and experiencing visual art while location-based VR and immersive gaming pods have popped up in shopping centers and amusement sites. To our interests, XR has been sprouting within the…