Holoportation
Tim Hogarth
Chief Technology Officer @ ANZ | Enterprise Architecture, Engineering IT Strategy
There's always news tech stories in the media, but this one really caught my attention. Wired recently profiled Microsoft Research's foray into creating a holoportation device. Basically, using a combination of 3D cameras, motion detection and their hololens device, one person's 3 dimensional image can be displayed in a 2nd location and interact as though they in the same room.
Go have a look. It's amazing.
The potential of this technology genuinely looks like bridging the interactions gap distance presents. Day to day I'm always on conference calls (and sometimes improving but still crude video conferencing), but these forms of interaction are so far removed from the full feedback of face-to-face. Of course, face-to-face is hard and often impracticable for distributed teams and wider networks.
The potential of this tech could make for a vastly more viable interaction model that we currently see in the workplace (let alone the personal interactions). A form of blended reality may really mean we can more easily slip into a state of suspended disbelief. Video conferencing is growing up - if only through deeper consumer familiarity with FaceTime, Hangouts, Skype, et al - and this feels like a great target to shoot for (particularly if the Hololens gets Kinnect/Wii levels of consumer adoption).
Research and high tech demos frequently don't make the mainstream too quickly. However, Microsoft gave an equally mind-blowing demo of real time translation 2-3 years ago and they now have Skype Translator. It might take a few years, but the commercial potential for this technology would appear to have so much up side I'm optimistic we'll see something in the next decade.
Identity Architect - Building the future of CIAM
8 年So currently I mostly see garbled faces over choppy lines - a simple bitmap... The success of this is network dependent.
Senior Director of Solution Engineering and Chief Architect, Canada at Salesforce
8 年This looks remarkable, but as you say, I would be happy simply having functional voice and video conferencing. Conf calls are the VGA adapter of telework.
Business Technology Delivery Executive - Technology Delivery & Capability - Unstructured Data, Payments/NPP, Wealth Divestments, M&A, Organisational Transformation- Customer, Business, Product and Technology. MAIPM, PMI
8 年Looks interesting and being able to walk though a living memory.........shades of Total Recall. I wouldn't be too concerned about the form factor given the rate of iteration these technologies experience.
Chief Information Officer, ASX
8 年Speed of Tech advancement continues growing exponentially! The true challenge is how to keep up!
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8 年One of the challenges of remote working is that managers want to be able to have their workers present in the same room. This tech is great. Doesn't look like it is that far off. Though would be nice if the goggles looked more like Google Glass.