How Extended Reality is Helping Us To Discover New Worlds

In the last year or so, we’ve had to adopt a new reality in our personal and professional lives and digital experiences have helped us embrace it. As we spend more time online, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR) and extended reality (XR) have helped to ease our transition to a new kind of workplace experience.?

Not so long ago, I wrote about how virtual experiences had helped those of us missing meeting up in person. I talked about how extended reality experiences can help our people “be there without physically being there.” But I accept that, without a headset on, it’s sometimes hard to imagine how transformational virtual worlds can be.

In our latest feature on XR, you’ll find a broader perspective on what these kinds of solutions can offer. We talk about Accenture’s own journey to embrace XR and how some of our predictions about XR adoption are supported by recent thought leadership. And, for your headset-on moment, we share pictures of what some of the virtual worlds we’ve created look like.

There’s little doubt in my mind that XR experiences are going to change how we work. I know this because we’ve been able to reach new levels of workplace innovation at Accenture by discovering the art of the possible with XR. So if you want to use XR, don’t just think of it as a cool new tech, but as a means to provide opportunities to develop a sense of community and enhance your culture.

Dive in

For us, differentiated XR experiences are collaborative, thought provoking, universal and innovative. We want to fully immerse our people in unique experiences and work with them to show them new perspectives.

For us, differentiated XR experiences are:

• Collaborative: Nurturing global connection with immersive, virtual experiences.
• Thought provoking: Offering new learning experiences, such as onboarding programs for new joiners and inclusion and diversity immersive training. They involve more senses with more dimension to reinforce learning.
• Universal: Industrializing the approach for scaled headset production and managing a 3D enterprise platform for our 32 geographic units involved.
• Innovative: Creating ecosystem partnerships where we can innovate together, such as our active projects with Microsoft to build new XR solutions. We aim to iterate with as many partners as we can to make unparalleled experiences that inspire business innovation.

From employee recruitment experiences to how we can reinvent our events, or make our offices come to life, we have been putting the XR strategy that we deliver to clients into practice for ourselves.

Take a look at how we’re using XR for our new joiners experience, our own leadership summits, in cybersecurity training, and in our many innovation hubs.

Accenture seeks to explore new frontiers on a daily basis and XR is one of the game-changing technologies that is helping us to innovate. We’re excited to invite you to join us on this journey. If you’d like to find out more about XR’s powerful impact on experience, read more here.??