This poster reports the objectives and design of a research study that explore the user experience of graduate students collaborating on a hypothetical class assignment in a virtual environment through VR technologies (i.e., Meta Quest headset, “Horizon Workrooms”). Furthermore, participants will perform comparable tasks in two other modalities, Zoom and in-person, to draw comparisons of their collaboration experiences. The results will imply VR technologies' feasibility, strengths, and weaknesses in collaborative work for information-intensive tasks. Data from the pilot session in February suggested that students were enthusiastic about learning and using VR technologies and were highly engaged during the session. And participants thought that it was just as if not easier to perform certain tasks in VR, such as sharing screens and co-browsing web pages. Nevertheless, participants identified several usability problems, such as the difficulty with typing when the keyboard is properly paired, the lags in system response, the inefficiency of using hand tracking for sophisticated tasks, etc., And all three pilot session participants felt tired and varying degrees of motion-sickness after wearing the headset for longer than 30 minutes. Formal testing sessions in April 2023 will reveal more findings regarding the role of VR technologies in academic collaborative work.