As an AR strategist Valerie has worked with businesses small and large to help them build and grow successful plans for using augmented reality at work. Her experience has shown that success in AR requires a “full business” approach, implementing XR tools for daily use, like SAP or other enterprise business systems.
Rather than testing pilot programs in a limited, innovation corner of the organization, Riffaud Cangelosi advises teams to start from the use-cases that solve core business problems and helps them integrate these new workflows and data streams into their daily work—from the floor staff to the finance team.
When whole teams see that these tools impact their work and their bottom line, daily, that’s when adoption and XR transformation really takes off. You know this is a conversation that Nathan C can’t get enough of and is happening all the time in the halls and happy hours at AWE events.
And while use cases abound for business AR, the hardware market for specialized AR glasses still lags behind the focus and diversity we’ve seen in the virtual reality (VR) headset space. The needs of a museum visitor and a warehouse employee are quite different when it comes to AR glasses and Riffaud Cangelosi dreams for a day when she can choose the right device for the task from a wall of AR glasses.
If XR is the next user interface for computing, could we soon be swapping glasses for different applications the same way we bounce between phones, game systems, tablets, and PCs?
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