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By Mike Elgan Meetings have been problematic for decades. They’re often used as a catch-all solution to unresolved problems. And a chronic lack of meeting discipline means that, for all the time spent getting people together, little is accomplished. Now, in a post-pandemic remote work world, where hybrid work and flex work are common, meetings are turning into something like an ongoing crisis at many organizations. They’re harming productivity and causing havoc with employee morale. And yet with many remote workers saying they feel disconnected, the misguided consensus is that even more meetin...
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By Mike Elgan The “Augmented Connected Workforce” is one of Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2024. Which raises the question: “Wait, what?” The Augmented Connected Workforce (ACWF) is a concept or a paradigm where advanced technologies are used to give employees what essentially amount to super powers. Specifically, the idea envisions integrating workers with Augmented Reality (AR) glasses, AI tools of every description, wearable sensors, wearable communication tools, IoT, robots, exoskeletons, machine vision and cloud computing. In short, the Augmented Connected Workforce conc...
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By Jonny Evans From its Darwin AI acquisition to recent reports claiming Apple might work with Google and others to support a wider array of generative AI (genAI) tools than it plans to introduce, it’s pretty clear the company has chosen to be focused in where it creates its own AI technologies. At least one of these focus areas reflects work the company has been doing since before AI became a buzzword — and that’s vision intelligence. Intimations of lifeBy this, I specially mean AI that can understand what it sees, contextualize that information, make decisions based on it, change or alter th...
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By Jonny Evans Healthcare is a huge opportunity for Apple’s Vision Pro, with up to three-quarters of US healthcare professionals open to exploring how to use the devices at work, a Tebra survey indicates. The survey of of 130 healthcare professionals and 1,003 Americans seems well-timed. We’ve seen a cavalcade of health-related applications for visionOS appear since the device first arrived last month. It’s already widely understood that spatial computing will usher in transformative change across a multitude of industries — and healthcare seems ripe for that kind of disruption. Why will healt...
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By Mike Elgan You hear that sound? That’s the sound of augmented reality (AR) fading away as a driving concept in technology. You could blame Apple, which handed down an edict to Apple Vision Pro developers: “Refer to your app as a spatial computing app. Don’t describe your app experience as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), extended reality (XR), or mixed reality (MR).” But blaming Apple would be wrong. Instead, blame artificial intelligence (AI) — specifically the generative AI (genAI) trend of the past year and a half; it’s completely upended and re-directed the purpose and func...
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In a single pincer motion, Jamin Hu switches off a lamp with the ease and agility of a Jedi knight. The co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of the Finnish start-up Doublepoint is demonstrating the effectiveness of its Bluetooth-enabled, touch-gesture technology at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. Through the smartwatch strapped to his wrist, Hu can morph into a human computer mouse, giving him the power to trip switches around the house or animate his devices at a distance. MWC 2024: Microsoft to open up access to its AI models to allow countries to build own AI economies"If...
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By Jonny Evans To get some sense of the future for Apple’s new Vision devices, early adopters might want to explore ARway.ai, which seems to deliver some of the elements of the augmented reality (AR) vision we think Apple will eventually achieve. What it provides is mapped and location-based AR content to your surroundings as you ambulate through them wearing the Apple headset. There’s a video to provide a sense of these experiences here. Why is this early-adopter territory? At this time — and at the current Vision Pro price — few of us will want to walk through crowded shopping malls for fear...
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By Ryan Faas “I haven’t upgraded the Mac (or PC) I use for work in a years. I was going to replace it this year, and I’m wondering if I could or should get an Apple Vision Pro instead. What do you think?” I’ve heard more variations of that question in the past two weeks than I expected. It’s not a bad idea in some respects. I can see the wheels turning in people’s heads when they consider that this is a device with clear potential well beyond playing with dinosaurs, reliving moments with spatial photos or watching immersive movies or other content. It draws you into a slightly different but in...
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By Jonny Evans Once upon a time, a young doctor joined the surgical unit at a prestigious hospital as an anaesthesiologist. He was an Apple user, of course, wearing Vision Pro during surgical procedures, as it allowed him to monitor all the vital signs during operations. This is not a fairy story. It is a prediction based on the known direction of travel. After all, the device can already be used to display patient medical records in one expansive view…. We saw with Google Glass that one of the few successful deployments for that device was in certain sectors of the medical profession. Apple’s...
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