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Microsoft Mesh and Viva: Revolutionizing the corporate dynamic for success
Editor’s note: Microsoft is a client of the author At its Ignite conference this week, Microsoft showed that it not only isn’t standing still during the pandemic but is also advancing at an impressive pace. The company made two big announcements, unveiling Microsoft Viva, which looks to the future, and Microsoft Mesh, which allows companies…
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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…
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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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What next for Apple retail?
Until we get COVID-19 testing and vaccination sorted out, we’re going to need new go-to-market technology business models, in part because all the places people usually experience tech will be closed or constrained. Can retail survive pandemic? Think about main street retail. We know this has been dramatically impacted already, but future consumers will be…
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Will Apple’s AR glasses revolutionize accessibility tech?
Heard about the optician who got a job at the Apple Store? Not yet, but it looks like you might hear something along those lines as the latest leak claims the company’s long-expected AR spectacles will support prescription lenses. A new approach to eye care One of the bigger problems about the idea of AR glasses…