Shared workplace, anyone? ‘Spatial’ claims to brings the vision of augmented reality (AR) to a workspace by combining futuristic effects of hologram-like dimensions with real-time reaction & conceptualization. It offers to transform area around you into 3D shared AR workplace.
Augmented reality has gained a considerable amount of attention recently with Apple, Samsung, Google, Facebook & Microsoft prioritizing the technology. Augmented reality & virtual reality are techniques with similar backbone technologies. Though virtual reality changes the entire world around you into a fantasy environment, augmented reality interjects lifelike projections into your current space.
Spatial aims at arming developers with tools necessary to harness the space around & enhance it with elements which improve understanding & augment collaboration between remote environments. It brings in a different dimension to the concept of shared workplace. For instance, if you wish to collaborate with a team member living on another continent in real-time, augmented reality could shape his/her avatar & teleport a 3D version of the member in the shared workplace segment.
Spatial’s collaboration tools add 2D or 3D versions of designs, documents, images & prototypes from a file on a computer or phone. It offers to seamlessly time all your digital devices into an “infinite workspace”. This is to be shared & considered by team members in the same room, never mind their location. Lifelike avatars of distant persons can react & interact in a mutual space. This helps meetings on any project to take place irrespective of participants’ location. Furthermore, objects conceptualized from images or videos can be discussed, moved & altered by all participants within the environment as if these 3D displayed elements were physical objects.
Spatial believes its use-case possibilities are limitless – examples of possible collaboration have been cited in a demo video on its Website. Spatial can work with HoloLens, MagicLeap, VR, PC or phone.
– This is a startup profile based on publicly available material & not a review –
Image Credit: Spatial
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