XR in practice: the engineering challenges of extending reality
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.7 • 53 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Extended Reality technology — XR — has had a lot of hype in recent years thanks to the concept of the metaverse. But bold visions of the future can obscure the reality of what engineers and organizations are doing today.
In this episode of the Technology Podcast, Scott Shaw and Birgitta Boeckeler are joined by Cam Jackson and Kuldeep Singh to discuss the XR work Thoughtworks has been doing with clients. Together they explore what it means for engineers and how the future of the technology might evolve.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast. |
| 0:07.9 | My name is Scott Shaw and I'll be your host, along with Birgitta Berkiller. |
| 0:13.4 | We have with us today, Cam Jackson and Kuldeep Singh, who will be discussing the topic |
| 0:19.5 | of XR and hopefully we'll find out about what that |
| 0:23.9 | actually means in a minute. |
| 0:25.9 | Brigitte, would you like to introduce yourself? |
| 0:27.9 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:28.8 | My name is Begitta. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm the second host for this podcast episode today, and I'm a technical principle based |
| 0:34.9 | out of the ThoughtWorks Berlin office in Germany. |
| 0:37.7 | And Cam, how about introducing yourself? |
| 0:40.1 | Hi, everyone. My name's Cam Jackson. I'm a lead developer with ThoughtWorks in our Melbourne |
| 0:44.7 | office. I've been spending some time looking into X-R for ThoughtWorks, figuring out where the |
| 0:50.6 | industry is at and what it means for us and what it means for our clients. |
| 1:00.2 | And Kuldeeb? Yeah. So my name is Koldeep Singh and I am leading some of the XR initiative at ThoughtWorks, India. And a couple of XR projects we have experienced with and we have been sharing |
| 1:08.0 | the learning around it and this is a time we should share with wider audience. |
| 1:13.3 | Maybe we could start out with some definitions. |
| 1:15.9 | I thought X and the XR was a variable, but that's my math background, I guess. |
| 1:23.1 | But I've heard it referred to differently. |
| 1:26.1 | So, Cam, can you give us a little tutorial on what |
| 1:30.9 | XR means? So it definitely can be a bit of a placeholder, XR just being. So the R is definitely |
| 1:37.9 | reality. XR can be something reality. It can also be extended reality. But it's an umbrella term which sort of refers to augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality. Maybe some other new ones might come up as well, but those are generally the three that we think of. |
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