KALEIDOSCOPE 2018 THE END OF DISTANCE THEMES THE Virtual and augmented reality technologies are removing the distance ECOSYSTEM to people, information and experiences, transforming the ways people RAISED live and work. 1) Is XR being used to its full potential in your business? THEME OVERVIEW: 2) Do you understand Technology has always been applied to overcome distance – from the wheel, to the internet – but the potential for using a extended reality is the first technology to virtually “relocate” people in time and space—and it’s combination of XR, AI and bringing about the end of distance. Virtual and Augmented Reality is transforming: machine learning? 3) What are the fundamental barriers to scaling XR in your organisation and how can they DISTANCE TO PEOPLE: DISTANCE TO DISTANCE TO Whether it’s helping be overcome? Immersive experiential INFORMATION AND EXPERIENCES AND customers visualise your environments make it INSIGHTS: ENVIRONMENTS: products and services, or 4) Can you visualise a possible for people to “be” Workers and consumers Customers are increasingly bringing employees and world where XR is a part of anywhere, from innovations can be served with real- investing in XR immersive expertise closer together, everyday life? What does it for the workforce to time information to help experiences over certain our journey to Extended look like? How is it used? customers experiencing complete tasks and make materials goods. XR Reality has just begun... 5) How can we enforce ethical products and services (e.g. decisions (e.g. visualisation technologies also enable boundaries for personal use virtual showrooms) for manufacturing) realistic experiences of of XR devices in public? How hostile and inaccessible can we protect the privacy environments (e.g. of the individual? emergency service training, oil rig safety) EXTENDED REALITY 20