In the fields of AR, VR, games and spatial computing, Kathy Hackel and Irena Cronin is famous. I've known them for over 15 years and they remain one of my favorite subject matter experts to follow.
I'm proud to share their new book Spatial Computing: Artificial Intelligence Business Revolutionavailable now.
I'm also proud to share that I had the privilege of writing the foreword and sharing it with you here!
About this book
Spatial computing: the business revolution driven by artificial intelligence Revealing exclusive insider knowledge of what's happening in today's convergence of artificial intelligence and spatial computing. Spatial computing is an evolving form of 3D-centric computing that uses artificial intelligence, computer vision, and extended reality to integrate virtual experiences into the physical world, breaking free from screens and integrating into everything you can see, experience, and know.
Spatial Computing: The business revolution driven by artificial intelligence includes the following:
New paradigms of human-to-human and human-machine interaction enhance how we visualize, simulate, and interact with data in physical and virtual locations.
Travel the world with robots, drones, cars, virtual assistants and more without being limited to one technology or device.
Insights, tools, and illustrative use cases enable enterprises to leverage the integration of artificial intelligence and spatial computing through hardware and software today and in the next decade.
The impact of spatial computing is only beginning to be felt. Spatial Computing: The Artificial Intelligence-Powered Business Revolution is a must-have resource for business leaders who want to fully understand this new form of revolutionary evolving technology that is expected to be even more impactful than personal and mobile computing.
Preface – The beginning of our new spatial reality: Immerse or die!
Apple launches Vision Pro in 2024, ushering in the next iPhone moment. Just like 2007, the world will never be the same. The new operating system opens up a whole new dimension. These infinite, layered canvases grant their users superhuman abilities. Now, people can interact with information, content and each other in any environment in ways and spaces that do not exist in traditional physical and digital realms. As a result, every day we have access to unprecedented worlds and experience unimaginable worlds taking shape in virtual and augmented realms.
But wait, there's more. About eight months before the launch of Apple Vision Pro, OpenAI released ChatGPT, introducing generative AI to the public. In fact, ChatGPT is widely regarded as the fastest-growing consumer internet app of all time, reaching an estimated 100 million monthly users in just two months.1 Generative AI is also in its own way giving users superpowers by augmenting their efforts with Artificial Intelligence. In fact, most applications and platforms automatically integrate generative AI as part of their user interface (UI). It will blend seamlessly into the digital experience. In addition to spatial computing, AI-driven experiences enhance human potential by equipping humans with cognitive exoskeletons, augmented and virtual vision, and the ability to interact with computers, robots, data, and each other in three-dimensional, otherworldly spaces.
This is where this story begins.
Humanity is now entering unknown portals of mixed reality that are not only intelligent and immersive, but transcendent. They enhance the human ability to unlock exponential performance and previously unattainable results in evolving hybrid dimensions that facilitate the interrelationship between the physical and digital worlds.
Cathy Hackl and Irena Cronin are about to inspire your imagination by embedding innovative concepts in space to create new worlds, new ways of working, new ways of learning, new ways of communicating, new ways of exploring and new ways to achieve. Transformative beginnings.
The boundary between the physical and digital worlds will be shaped by you and other readers. You are the architects of these unexplored worlds. You are the astronomers who discovered them. You are the pioneers in exploring these new frontiers. Your vision defines the next chapter of space design, experience, and human potential.
What a virtual world we live in now! Either immersion or death!
Brian Solis
Digital futurist, anthropologist, soon-to-be 9x best-selling author, transhuman, Brian Solis website
