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Microsoft HoloLens: Partner Spotlight with Autodesk Fusion 360
Microsoft HoloLens and Autodesk Fusion 360 are helping improve collaboration across the product development process, enabling engineers and designers to iterate together in real-time.
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Microsoft HoloLens: Partner Spotlight with Volvo Cars
From giving customers a sensor’s vantage point to configuring cars in entirely new ways, Microsoft HoloLens is working to bring Volvo’s cutting edge car features to life in ways never before possible.
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From the Back Room to the HPE MyRoom VIP: Interview with HPE’s Garry Orsolini
We recently interviewed Garry Orsolini, Technology Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and leader of the team responsible for creating the HPE MyRoom /VRG application platform for wearable technology. Garry and his team are pioneers in the enterprise wearables space. When Google Glass came out with its Explorer Edition, Garry was one of the first to tinker with the novel technology, seizing upon its capabilities to better serve HP’s enterprise customers. In fact, Garry’s interest in connecting people with technology goes back to the early days of his career at HP, as you’ll read below. At the present time, HPE has a very early-to-market, complete and secure enterprise wearable tech solution, which supports a wide range of wearable and mobility devices, and which also serves as a true inspiration and benchmark in this nascent space in which we are all invested. Please enjoy reading the interview. BrainXchange (Q): To begin, how about you provide us with a little background on yourself and your career? Garry Orsolini (A): Well, I graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy but could not find anyone who wanted to hire a resident philosopher so I became a VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America) volunteer and worked […]
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AREA Webinar: Why and How to Introduce Enterprise Augmented Reality
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AREA Webinar: Plan for Enterprise AR Success | Meet and Manage the Risk Factors
Similarly to mobile technology introductions, implementing enterprise Augmented Reality technologies must be planned. Sound Augmented Reality project planning takes into account potential benefits and risks to existing IT, human and business systems. Potential benefits of Augmented Reality are addressed in many places, including previous AREA webinars. This unique webinar will examine risk factors frequently encountered with enterprise AR deployments.
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AREA Webinar: Selecting Use Cases for Enterprise Augmented Reality
Selecting the best use cases for enterprise Augmented Reality introduction is arguably one of the most important steps that project managers will perform when exploring the technology’s potential to impact workplace performance. Finding a use case that is sufficiently narrow to be well defined while also broad enough to be applicable to multiple important business processes across an organization requires careful analysis. Use case selection should also take into account the stakeholders, their budgets, their power to influence corporate decision makers and their experience with emerging technology introduction.
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Three Reasons Why Google Android Wear Could Take a Bite Out of the Apple Watch
Written by Special Guest Blogger Andrew Levy, Co-Founder, Crittercism The wristwatch has been a fashion accessory for almost 450 years – but today, technology has transformed what was once a mere timepiece into a $30 billion industry. At the heart of this movement is the Apple Watch, a reimagining of the wristwatch that has turned the space on its ear by marrying wearable tech wizardry with sleek, modern design. With the inclusion of tech, something else interesting has also happened to the humble wristwatch: It’s developed the potential to be a valuable business tool as well. With 38 different watches available, Apple has called its Watch the most personalized device it has ever created. But there’s still a chance for a competitor – like Google Android Wear – to take a bite out of the Apple Watch market share – and enterprise usability just might be a key point of difference. Android Wear devices offer many tools and services that can positively impact the daily life of corporate users. Android Wear’s biggest value-add for both regular consumers and professional users is the ability to communicate through the smartwatch itself. Since it syncs to your phone, all of your alerts and […]
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Industrial Applications Highlight the Need of Flexible Displays for Large Field of View in Virtual Reality Headsets
Written by Special Guest Blogger Tony Sun, Lux Research, the leading research partner of the Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit 2015 Virtual reality (VR) is not just for gaming or entertaining: the immersive interaction experience makes VR headsets a useful tool for design and training in many industries like automotive, construction, military, education, and health care. In fact, such technologies are already adopted by companies like Ford, which uses VR technologies to understand how customers experience its cars. However, current VR headsets are not for everyone to enjoy: some people will suffer from nausea due to motion sickness, which raises very real safety concerns of wider VR adoption in an industrial setup. One of the key elements to solve the motion sickness issue is to have a large field of view (FOV), the extent of the observable world that is seen in the VR headset. Currently, there has not been a VR headset specifically for industrial applications. Industrial developers often pick major consumer VR headsets with a single screen for display, such as Oculus Rift, as the platform. These headsets typically offer FOVs of 100° to 110°. There are also VR cases with FOVs of 90° to 105°, such as Google […]
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Voice-Based Wearables in the Enterprise
Written by Special Guest Blogger Aditya Kaul, Tractica Voice control is a powerful tool, especially when it comes to performing hands-free tasks in an enterprise setting. Voice-based wearables have been successfully implemented in the enterprise, especially in retail or warehouse environments, and have proven to be highly effective in speeding up tasks such as picking and sorting, improving accuracy, and increasing productivity as a whole. Employee communication on the shop floor is another application where voice-based wearables have been used. When compared to the use of handheld scanners in warehouse environments, or walkie-talkies on retail shop floors, voice-based wearables are easier to learn, set up, and operate. Honeywell’s Vocollect and Theatro are two voice-based wearable solutions currently on the market. The two solutions are similar in functionality, in the sense that voice is the main input and output technology, doing away with the type of display screen that is usually present in smart augmented reality glasses. Both also come with a sophisticated backend system, which can be customized for any warehouse environment, converting a warehouse inventory list into a voice-based querying and entry system. Honeywell’s Vocollect has a traditional form factor for a wearable with a headset and microphone. The […]
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Smart Glasses: Perfect for the Enterprise
As has been declared in countless reports, articles and blog posts, smart glasses are game changing technology for the enterprise, if not as esteemed by consumers. Indeed, while consumers have been slow (to say the least) in adopting the technology, numerous publicized business use cases have proven that smart glasses like Google Glass and the Vuzix M100 are valuable to enterprise and here to stay.What makes smart glasses so apt for business, whereas smart watches are more of a consumer phenomenon at the moment? It’s the “see-what-I-see” aspect of the head-mounted devices. The ability to share a unique, first-hand viewpoint with a colleague, expert or customer remotely and in real-time is what distinguishes smart glasses from other wearable technology; and what makes Google Glass and the like ideal for the innovative approach to customer service that companies such as Hewlett Packard are now taking.Below is another great video featuring EWTS ’15 thought leader Garry Orsolini. In the video, Garry describes HP’s Visual Remote Guidance for the enterprise, an initiative in which smart glass technology is utilized to facilitate real-time and remote problem solving between HP and its enterprise customers. Enjoy!
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How Google Glass Improved HP’s Graphics Solutions Business
W’ve been exploring some of the fascinating ways in which HP is revolutionizing their business through the use of wearable technology. The applications for using wearable tech like Google Glass in a variety of enterprise environments have been relatively well-documented in the media; but less covered are the real-life benefits of using smart glasses and the like to an organization and its day-to-day operationsSure, the idea behind heads-up and hands-free technology makes perfect sense for business…in theory; but can wearable tech actually improve workplace productivity and the overall efficiency of organizations as promised? HP’s Graphics Solutions Business team is “living proof” that wearable technology can indeed make your business better and more effective. In the video below, HP’s John McMahon describes how the Graphics Solutions Team employed Google Glass to maximize the up-time of its customers’ printing solutions and create a whole new (and improved) customer service experience.Use cases like the one described in HP’s video clearly indicate the incredible, trans-formative potential of wearable technology in the enterprise.
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From M2M to the IoT Vision and the Role of Wearable Technologies
Written by Special Guest Blogger Saverio Romeo, Beecham ResearchThe M2M market is gaining the momentum that it has deserved for a long time. The use of machine-to-machine technologies is spreading in many sectors, transforming the way different organizations operate and showing real flow of revenues. M2M products and solutions are no longer “nice to have” but strategic to organisations. Business models are moving beyond connectivity, increasingly becoming service-led and data-rich. The market is also moving from an application-centric approach – one business problem and one set of data – towards an environment-centric approach (the Internet of Things) in which different data come different sources and devices. Therefore, we start talking about smart spaces and wearable devices as interfaces between smart spaces and people. This article will explore that evolution. Development Trajectories of the M2M Market Initially, the M2M market was driven by the so-called “after-market applications”. The After-market category of applications usually involve retrofitting connectivity to products already installed and working in the field. But, soon after, another route started to develop in parallel. Policy makers and regulators began to appreciate the importance of M2M for the modernization of certain sectors. In Europe especially, they started legislating in order to […]
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