WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

WHY IT MATTERS: state of the art in the use of AR and VR in real life scenarios appear to remain focussed on training and repair operations. The videos in this webcast, starting at 12:30 are indicative of what's possible. First thing that strikes you is that solutions appear useful but one wonders how much work goes into making each one and also maintaining each solution. AR & VR in commercial environment remain niche solutions at this time.

WHY IT MATTERS: AR is one of those technologies that have been discussed for so many years and that will explode into the scene with a plethora of consumer and business applications in the coming years. An overnight success story that has been 10 years in the making (if not more). This paper helps managers see business applications for this technology.

What makes it so compelling in the fact that mobile devices (2B+ and counting) all have support for this technology builtin. Just checkout the video I made using my Google Pixel 2 phone camera this morning. It just works!

https://www.facebook.com/fmheir/posts/10155798075150309

And Apple iOS users have the equivalent.