1. Immersive Technologies: Driving Enterprise Innovation
Michael Barngrover
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2. Michael Barngrover,
Developer/Designer of immersive experiences, XR project consultant

3. XR has already come to a business near you
Walmart’s new 2018 training initiative: 17,000 Oculus Gos
Volkswagon Group also major adopter of VR training solutions with their Global VR training rollout in 2017

4. XR is coming to a government near you
Microsoft secures $480 million HoloLens contract from US Army
Expected to deliver 2,500 headsets to the Army within the first two years

5. Improving Performance in Dangerous Locations
VR permits more immersive training improving decision making performance when intuition, routine, and reflex are critical. There is a growing market for police and soldier trainers, including APEX Office training

6. Improving Performance in Dangerous Locations
AR allows for performance enhancements in the moment, when environmental or contextual information cannot be processes quickly enough by a human. AR always pairs with AI support, effectively as the UI for it.
Qwake’s AR Smoke Diving Helmet—a helmet that employs a combination of thermal imaging, toxicity sensors, and edge detection along with a system they’ve developed called C-THRU.

7. Improving Performance in Human Interaction
Hailed optimistically as an “empathy machine”, VR can successfully replicate many kinds of social situations. Training people to identify facial expressions, body language, or even coded language is being used to improvements in human interaction. This is potentially critically important when working with people from many different cultures.

8. Increasing Speed of Iteration: Operational Design
Designing warehouses and facilities on CAD programs is great, but testing them requires expensive mockups and can’t approach real scale in most cases. With VR, CAD designs can be tested through simulated operations. Users can even physically adjust the design inside the experience. Designing from inside VR is a powerful time saver.

9. Increasing Speed of Iteration: Product Design
As with facility and operational design, product design in VR reduces prototyping needs and thus speeds up iteration.
VR and AR can both be applied here, and both can facilitate social design, as in the Audi Holodeck example above. Social AR and VR facilitates remote teams of designers working together, reducing travel constraints and improving collaboration through shared visualization.

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