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iPhone 12 Pro, Apple and LiDAR in the enterprise
Both the iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max possess Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) scanners. Why should it matter to your enterprise? What is LiDAR? LiDAR systems are capable of measuring how long it takes light to reflect back from a surface in order to measure the distance traveled and create 3D depth maps…
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Cisco’s Webex vs. Arthur Digital and the future of collaboration and communication
Editor’s note: Cisco and Microsoft are clients of the author. Cisco Webex and Arthur this week had events focused on each company’s collaboration approach. Cisco made a significant move to finally eliminate phones that can’t do video, attempting to do what AT&T promised to do back in the 1960s: move to video phones. While Cisco is using its…
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How mixed reality (and Hololens) boosted productivity at Lockheed Martin
Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author. Mixed reality (MR) in the consumer market has been less than exciting, but it’s been a big hit in business — particularly in manufacturing and training. Lockheed Martin was one of the first companies to embrace this technology (along with other aerospace firms like Boeing). In a…
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Apple’s indoor maps format is now a standard; here’s why that matters
Apple Maps is essential to future innovation, from autonomous vehicles to AR experiences, so it’s noteworthy that Apple’s own Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) has been adopted as a community standard for indoor positioning services. What is IMDF? IMDF has been accepted as a community standard by the Open Geospatial Consortium in response to proposals…
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Microsoft’s Mesh aims for mixed-reality meetings of the future
Microsoft offered a glimpse of what it believes will be the future of remote collaboration at Ignite on Tuesday, with workers one day able to interact with holographic items and talk to photo-realistic, life-like “holoportation” avatars of their colleagues. The vision is based on the potential of Microsoft Mesh, a new Azure-based developer SDK that…