Glue vs Samudaia

Glue is a virtual collaboration platform for remote meetings, workshops, training, and custom virtual experiences. Teams can use customizable avatars, spatial audio, and virtual spaces, alongside sticky notes, whiteboards, presentations, brainstorming, co-creation, annotations, and note-taking. Imported 3D models can be brought in through the web interface. Team spaces and their content remain available after meetings, allowing teams to return to work and add annotations. Cloud storage holds presentations, images, videos, and 3D models. Teams can brand spaces and configure venues for meetings, training, presentations, situation rooms, and product showcases. Slack and Trello are named as integration examples. Glue lists Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows platforms, with downloads also listed for Meta Quest, Pico, HTC Vive Focus 3, Windows desktop and VR, and Mac desktop. The Free plan includes 10 team members, 10 team spaces, sessions up to 30 minutes, and 2GB of team file storage. Professional costs €50 per user per month when billed yearly or €60 per user per month when billed monthly. Glue was founded in 2017 in Helsinki and was acquired by Hyperspace in May 2024.

Samudaia is a virtual office for remote and hybrid teams, organized around a shared 2D map with live presence. Members enter video rooms by walking their avatars into them; this connects their camera and microphone to people already there without a meeting link. Workspaces include map themes, avatars, status, multiple workspaces, roles and permissions, screen sharing, background blur, a shared whiteboard and per-room chat. Members can invite colleagues by email or a single join link. Video and audio use WebRTC through LiveKit, while the shared whiteboard is an Excalidraw canvas. Samudaia runs on Linux, macOS, Windows and the web, with no mobile apps listed. Its plan is free during early access, requires no credit card and includes a team-sized workspace; paid plans for large organizations are in development. The product does not support guests from outside the workspace or spatial audio, and it is not sized for 200-person all-hands events. Samudaia says its privacy policy is written for GDPR compliance, that it uses access controls and encryption in transit where applicable, and that it does not sell personal data.