{"id":56190,"date":"2016-07-20T11:27:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=56190"},"modified":"2016-07-20T11:28:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:28:40","slug":"why-it-leaders-should-pay-attention-to-augmented-reality-and-so-should-those-in-higher-ed-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/07\/20\/why-it-leaders-should-pay-attention-to-augmented-reality-and-so-should-those-in-higher-ed-as-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Why IT leaders should pay attention to augmented reality [and so should those in higher ed as well]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/smarterwithgartner\/it-leaders-pay-attention-to-augmented-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Why IT leaders should pay attention to augmented reality<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from gartner.com by Heather Pemberton Levy<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Business will be a leading use case for AR over the next several years. An example is DHL\u2019s use of wearables and AR in a warehouse pilot program to achieve improvement in the picking process. Other AR apps allow for automatic sign translation, or in a hands-busy environment, technicians can get equipment maintenance instructions through their HMDs while keeping focused on the task at hand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/smarterwithgartner\/it-leaders-pay-attention-to-augmented-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56191\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SWG_AR2-01.png\" alt=\"SWG_AR2-01\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SWG_AR2-01.png 720w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SWG_AR2-01-150x115.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u201cVirtual reality (VR) and AR capabilities will merge with the digital mesh to form a more seamless system of devices capable of orchestrating a flow of information that comes to the user as hyperpersonalized and relevant apps and services,\u201d said Mr. Blau. \u201cIntegration across multiple mobile, wearable, IoT and sensor-rich environments (the digital mesh) will extend immersive applications beyond isolated and single-person experiences. Rooms and spaces will become active with things, and their connection through the mesh will appear and work in conjunction with immersive virtual worlds. \u201c<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I would add those working in higher education to this as well &#8212; as well as vendors working on education-related solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why IT leaders should pay attention to augmented reality &#8212; from gartner.com by Heather Pemberton Levy Excerpt: Business will be a leading use case for AR over the next several years. An example is DHL\u2019s use of wearables and AR in a warehouse pilot program to achieve improvement in the picking process. Other AR apps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,354,224,387,112,37,35,3,391,419,418,180,64,7,14,367,562,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-av-audiovisual","category-augmented-reality","category-business","category-corporate-business-world","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-immersion","category-innovation","category-it-in-he","category-learning-ecosystem","category-mobile-learning","category-vendors","category-wearables","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56194,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56190\/revisions\/56194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}