XR in the enterprise
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.5 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Once the preserve of gaming and consumer electronics, extended reality (XR) — a combination of virtual and augmented reality — is now finding applications in the enterprise. This might be in testing and training situations or data visualizations. Here, we explore the implications this technology has for the enterprise software development lifecycle.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | My name is Alexei Villas Boas. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm the head of Technology for Thoughtrix Brazil and I will be one of your hosts this time, |
| 0:14.0 | together with Rebecca Parsons. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello, Rebecca. |
| 0:17.0 | Thanks, Alexei. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:19.0 | My name is Rebecca Parsons. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm the chief technology officer of ThoughtWorks and excited today to talk with our guest, Margaret. |
| 0:26.6 | So Margaret, would you please introduce yourself? |
| 0:28.6 | Thank you for inviting you to be here. My name is Margaret Plumley. I'm a product strategist and the XR practice lead for North America. |
| 0:35.6 | Very excited to be a part of this podcast. Happy to have you with us, Margaret. Thank you so much for joining. And so the conversation today is about XR, extended reality. And why don't we start with the definition? So, Margaret, can you guide us through what extended reality is and the difference between all the acronyms, AR, MR, VR, |
| 0:55.7 | and etc. |
| 0:56.7 | Sure, absolutely. |
| 0:57.7 | So AR, augmented reality, MR, mixed reality, VR, virtual reality. |
| 1:04.2 | The X is often used as a variable to mean any of the three or extended reality. |
| 1:09.3 | And VR generally means if you have a full headset and the entire world |
| 1:13.5 | is virtual versus AR where you're augmenting the world that you are in. And mixed reality is |
| 1:20.8 | somewhere in between the two generally used when you're referring to smart glasses. But yeah, |
| 1:25.7 | lots of acronyms. And you can even add more technologies in there |
| 1:29.0 | and combine it with things like IoT and have all the acronyms you want. Wow. And it's definitely |
| 1:35.4 | getting more and more interesting as time goes by. But at the end of the day, these are not new |
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