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HBR IdeaCast

Tech at Work: The Future of Spatial Computing

HBR IdeaCast

Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Managing technology has never been more challenging. HBR IdeaCast’s new special series, Tech at Work, offers research, stories, and advice to make technology work for you and your team. This week: how to prepare your company for the future of spatial computing.

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:13.0

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0:17.0

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0:19.0

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0:20.0

com slash Idea cast AI.

0:27.0

Tom, how long have you been an editor at H.

0:30.0

About four years.

0:32.0

But you had never tried AR or VR until recently is that correct?

0:37.6

Yeah, so I was very recently at a conference and there was like a VR booth which was the most popular a the first time that a lot of people were using these things.

0:54.4

And they were like, what is this for?

0:55.9

I've heard all this hype.

0:57.0

What is it like to actually use it?

1:00.8

And can I see a way that that actually like applies to what I do. And so I tried the

1:06.5

Apple Vision Pro at last. I tried two different things. One was just like immercively

1:11.6

look at dinosaurs which is very cool.

1:14.8

And the second use was this like prototype that was built for

1:20.2

using like a camera that you could put down a pipe and then there was also an overlay that was like a map of

1:27.2

the system that you were looking in and then it had like other stats overlaid.

1:45.5

Sort of like you would see in like a video game like a like a heads up display and then the other use for the Apple vision pro was if you had to like fix an engine and you were an apprentice and there wasn't like a master mechanic around somebody could be seeing what you see and like giving you the

1:50.6

steps as you go along.

1:52.7

So an interesting thing about this to me is that the use cases that I was looking at in this

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