What's New in Teams Calling, Meetings and Devices March 2024
Immersive Environments Powered by IoT
1. Virtual & augmented reality are
gearing up to transform our world.
REDEFINING “EXPERIENCE”
2. TODAY’S GOAL
Leave with a firm grasp on how “virtual & augmented
reality” can be an opportunities for your business —
and how they will change the face of business.
3. OUR JOURNEY
● What is virtual reality?
● What is augmented reality?
● What is IoT?
● Digitizing our world
● Examples
● A new era for entrepreneurs
4. WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT
The digitization of human experience.
11. “The Internet has crashed into the real world.”
~Donna Hoffman
George Washington University
12. IN MORE TECHNICAL TERMS
Sensors and devices embedded in the physical world,
connected by networks to computers.
Unlocking previously unobtainable data
and making it easily accessible*.
* - with permission, of course
13. SMART
EVERYTHING
The sensors we’re already using
get added to everything else.
From smart toasters
to smart cities.
via: smartphoneworld.me
15. UBIQUITOUS “SMART”
Across all industries.
via: libelium.com/top_50_iot_sensor_applications_ranking
Crazy number of devices.
Much bigger than mobile.
4.6B mobile users today
vs. 50B IoT devices by 2020
17. THE REAL POWER OF IoT
Billions of devices.
Trillions of sensors.
Collecting previously
unobtainable data.
Then sharing that data with
other IoT devices.
18. IoT is digitizing our
physical world.
Providing us with a 360° degree
view of nearly everything.
Perfect information.
IN OTHER WORDS...
ibmbigdatahub.com/infographic/360-view-world-internet-things
19. IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP TERMS
By 2020, each of us will interact with
150+ smart devices every day.
These devices will be on our bodies, in our homes,
in our cars, and at the office.
Each one collecting data about the world around it.
All potential tools for creating new experiences.
weforum.org/agenda/2015/02/5-predictions-for-technology-in-2020
21. WE ARE DIGITIZING THE “REAL”
● Satellites imaging Earth (0.5 m resolution)
● Autonomous cars imaging everything within 100 m
● Augmented reality headgear (1 mm resolution)
● Drones imaging cities (1 cm resolution)
24. IN ESSENCE...
We are moving into a world where we can seamlessly
experience the “real” world enhanced by software.
And create new experiences that are completely
virtual, yet indistinguishable from the “real.”