When I meet Maximilian Dole, CEO of HoloMeeting, we are in his “room”. I don’t usually interview anyone in person on TNW, certainly not in the interviewer’s room, but this is not your regular meeting or your regular room.
The “person” in Dole is a three-dimensional three-dimensional head and shoulders, and his room is a virtual lounge designed to enable toilet meeting in a remote workplace. I’m in New York and Doyle is in Germany. Doele and his company HoloMeeting believe this is the future of the business.
Business is booming
The world is moving rapidly towards mobile remote work. According to the 2017 State of the Work in the US, 43 percent of the US workforce worked remotely in 2016, with Gallup in one of those surveys stating that they work remotely more than 80 percent of the time. Only this number is expected to increase. This transition to remote work via mobile devices has been announced as a tool to increase productivity, save money and end the rural brain drain, but we have not yet reached a solution. As overall productivity increases, cooperation and contact with co-workers decreases, leading to social isolation, decreased creativity, reduced chances of promotion and lifting, and more.
Cooperation in mixed reality
Just as previous generation technologies – high-speed Internet, video conferencing, instant messaging tools, and all things project management – make remote work possible by increasing connection speeds, the next generation of tools are designed to support traditional workplace collaboration and cross- Factor interactions have to be simulated. .
German startup company HoloMeeting aims to solve this problem. HoloMeeting has developed a program for Microsoft HoloLens that enables teams to collaborate and interact remotely in a mixed reality.
So what is HoloMeeting?
HoloMeeting allows companies to hold meetings in a shared 3D workspace. Within this scope, participants can share 3D and 2D content. Everything that is shared in the workplace is visible to everyone in the meeting.
Participants also interact with each other in different ways. If a person decides to move around the shared workspace, his avatar – a stereoscopic version of the head and shoulders – also moves. These movements are not only visible to the user, but also to other participants.
The holomating team created options designed to emulate the office environment. For example, there’s no mute button, “I can’t mute your voice in an in-person meeting, so I shouldn’t be able to meet online,” says Dole.
Everyone joins a virtual lounge – the place to have a virtual conversation about a water cooler – and people can enter a virtual “room” whenever they want, to facilitate those amazing workplace conversations that Only when coworkers appear without notice.
is it working?
And the truth is, technology does not completely mimic personal interactions; Frozen, frozen heads and shoulders are not the same walking individuals with facial expressions and body language. But this is a step in the right direction and interested in big companies.
However, Doyle acknowledged that widespread adoption is yet to be done.
This is mostly because HoloLens is a very expensive device ($ 3000 USD per pop) and has a learning curve. There’s nothing like it. So in order to adopt HoloLens on a larger scale, we need more education. Currently, we’re on stage” when I have a landline at home So why do I need a mobile phone? “Says Dole,
In addition, the technology is still under development. Later this year, the second generation of HoloLens was launched. This update requires a completely new version of the HoloMeeting app. Most likely, the technique will be greatly improved as it will expand the field of holones view. very. Instead of tracking the back of your hand palm, like the current HoloLens, the HoloLens 2 will track 20 different points on your hand that allow for real hand gestures.
Doele believes it will take from 3 to 5 years – after Apple to launch its first mixed real-life device – so this kind of mixed-reality remote function becomes mainstream. Currently, this Apple device is nothing more than a rumor, so we may have to wait a long time.
However, despite the early nature of this technique, Dobel is convinced that it is an important tool for idealizing telecommunications. He ended our conversation by describing his vision for the distant future, saying: “If we can make remote work easier, it will allow workers to be more flexible. If you have young children, e.g. For, it is very important. “
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