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How has the history of education evolved in recent times?  With the invention of paper and the printing press, it became easy to communicate ideas, and the shelf-life of those ideas was extended from a few months to a few years . When the digital medium of transmission came of age, communication and, more importantly, education evolved and made the magic leap from print to digital and from 2D to 3D in the form of animations and online videos. The past few decades saw great strides happening in the field of online education in the form of interactive whiteboards and simulations, educational games, online blackboards, and classrooms permeating the educational sphere. Students transitioned from using traditional pen and paper to using online desktops and laptops with their keyboards, mice, and of late, mobile phones and tablets to get on the technological wave. These technological breakthroughs helped students and teachers to digitally communicate their ideas. However, any interaction...

With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, XR Technologies have gained mainstream attention due to their advantage in enabling connectivity while maintaining social distancing. However, XR technologies are not entirely new and have been here for a while. This article provides a bird's-eye view on the entire spectrum that constitutes XR - Extended Reality. What exactly is XR Technology?  XR Technology or Extended Reality Technology is the basket term used to refer to Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Mixed (or Merged) Reality. The Reality-Virtuality continuum (sequence) is used to denote the range of possibilities and structures between total virtuality and total reality. While XR originally denoted the superset of the above spectrum, it has a practical connotation to refer to Virtual Reality on one end of the spectrum, Mixed (or merged) reality in the middle, and Augmented Reality at the other end of the visual spectrum. Having defined XR technology, let us have a worm's-e...

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the world was forced to embrace the new lifestyle of Social Distancing . Over the past few months, various forms of social distancing like complete and partial lockdowns, restricted attendance, etc. have come into play. To ensure connectivity during lockdown scenarios, the workforce and the learning community have been forced to take up remote work and online classes. Though this trend had been picking up at a snail's pace in the recent decade, it took the Covid-19 pandemic, sadly, to thrust this in top gear to help the general public find their place in a dystopian setup. Changing a Supply-Chain Management model overnight is impossible and can bring a business to a halt. As we look at Technology to rescue us, one such promising field is Augmented Reality which works by superimposing information on objects.  Augmented Reality for Enterprise  Today's enterprises operate in highly complex, diverse, and dynamic environments. The enterprise sector is ...

What is Geo AR?  Geo AR stands for geospatial augmented reality service. Everyone knows about Pokemon Go, where the players had to "hunt" for Pokemon monsters based on their locations. Simply stated, Pokemon Go used this revolutionary Geo AR feature to set up Pokemon monsters at various locations across the world. In simple terms, the phone uses the Global Positioning System (GPS) and determines the coordinates on the world and communicates this location to the phone's camera. The camera, in turn, shows AR content on the phone to highlight various parameters in a place like directions, places, markers, or even the next step to be taken by a person in that location.  Use Cases for Geo AR  1. Show appropriate directions to help travellers in new locations  Some of the obvious use cases for Geo AR are in the travel industry loosely. Imagine a traveller in a new location and trying to find a hotel. With an appropriate Geo AR marker, the traveller can find directions...

The last decade has seen Extended Reality solutions permeate and gather better acceptance in the Learning and Development community. Traditional Learning & Development solutions provide a linear approach to learning. Augmented Reality (AR) is different with its exploratory learning approach. AR builds upon traditional learning and development models and piques the curiosity of the learner to interact with the provided content and learning materials. Does everyone learn at the same pace? While all learners are not the same, the learning material is the same. AR provides the learners with the unique advantage to choose their own learning pace and can start from anywhere in the learning curve. This advantage, coupled with the immersive, engaging, and collaborative content will prove to be a blessing for Learning and Development professionals and the learning community at large. AR positively enhances the learner's engagement rate with its interactive medium. As per a rep...

How is the Covid-19 situation limiting our nature to stay connected? In an isolated environment due to social distancing, the only way to connect is via Technology. Though the Internet has provided us with a million ways to connect via social media, messenger, and video conferencing, the ability to connect in the third dimension, space, is what makes life meaningful. But the more we interact in real life, the more we stand to risk our lives in the process due to the Covid-19 situation that has taken the world hostage. We human beings are social beings by nature. It is only due to our ability and character to connect with others that we are able to shape ourselves. Is technology helping us really? Newer technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) feed us with a lot of information to the point of an overkill. This is why it is said that " Beyond the age of information, is the age of choices."  And that begs the question, how do we make choices in our daily life? M...

The immersive technologies, i.e., augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) which are combinedly known as XR is said to be providing immersive and experiential learning environments so that the future workforce can be prepared through it. XR is an umbrella term for both AR and VR where it is availed for the training initiatives in the workspace and it has been spun across various industries.  With the help of XR led workforce training, there are benefits like increase in employee engagement and improvement in productivity since the technology is able to mimic real-life situations. With the help of XR hardware, the employees can practice on a lot of training applications which is from safety to potential customers and task-specific modules for the hard skills and for the leadership development; there is the use of employee scenarios.  Since the trainees are receiving immersive and fun learning experience, it is not only more engaging to them but also they are intere...