This week, Apple unveiled its brand new Vision Pro head-mounted display at its headquarters in Cupertino, California. The $3,500 (£2,808) price tag is as hefty as its array of high-tech features – for those that can afford it, this new headgear will allegedly change the way we interface with not just digital spaces – think, the Metaverse – but also the world around us. So what can the Vision Pro do? Thanks to its innovative EyeSight feature, the device will allow users to seamlessly transition from AR (augmented reality) to VR (virtual reality) on the fly; it’s an impressive advancement of pre-existing ideas.

For a company that has empowered and encouraged fitness and interconnectivity with its products, this revolution in spatial computing, as Apple puts it so succinctly, seems to be a surprisingly insular experience.

A premium price point and the opportunity to exist in an insular reality where one can watch movies in an empty digital cinema might sound appealing to your typical Apple evangelists. One of the biggest questions that remain, however, is what the practical applications of this device will be. ‘Killer software’, or lackthereof has been a significant hurdle for head-mounted displays – typically, the adoption and uptake of a product fuels software development and diversity.

What can the Vision Pro for industry?

What Apple hasn’t focused its Vision on, so far, is industry. It’s prohibitively expensive, yes, but it packs an impressive array of technology – everything from tiny 4K screens to infrared gesture sensors are in there. But what will that actually be used for? According to LightGuide, augmented reality has the potential to transform industry, and with good reason. Imagine: walking around a digital structure, designed on a computer, in real-time, in the setting it’s due to be built in. Even Nintendo’s now-defunct 3DS device could utilised augmented imagery to project Pokémon onto a table; here, it’s the reported immersion and streamlining that’s so exciting.

Just don’t expect the battery to last quite as long in practice: the Visual Pro’s power source – a literal wired battery pack – only lasts two hours when it’s not plugged in. It’s hardly a day’s work on-site, or at the office. This writer’s had longer meetings!

Seeing things differently

One sector the Vision Pro could come into its own is training and upskilling; imagine truly immersive learning experiences. One of the downsides of wearing any head-mounted device is the lack of facetime (literally) between real people. After all, it’s hard to show your face when you’re wearing ski goggles stuffed with technology! Yet the Vision Pro has plenty of potential to transform training experiences, making them fully interactive – imagine being able to witness best practice in a role not just on paper, but in person, before you start the job. Likewise, imagine an experience akin to a hazard detection test from inside the digital vehicle.

Whilst the Vision Pro lacks haptic feedback, its potential in healthcare is nevertheless present. Augmented reality has always lent itself to sci-fi visions of surgery, and it’s easy to consider this technology empowering doctors. Overlaying vitals next to a patient sounds like an Iron Man HUD-based dream but the practical application of the Vision Pro for physicians cannot be understated. For now, beyond passive forms of media and see-through sensors, it’s not really clear what Apple’s grand vision for the Vision Pro really is.

What would you use the Vision Pro for, as a professional? Let us know below.

Source: Will Apple Vision Pro Make VR Mainstream?

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The pandemic changed many workers’ relationships with work forever, and in a post-Covid world, many of us simply aren’t willing to accept the shortcomings we tolerated before. HPE Aruba Solutions redefined the tech space when we were forced behind our laptop screens; now, they’re hoping to make life easier for enterprise IT teams the world over, with a new IT-fuelled, cloud-native network management solution.

Aruba Solutions is a jewel in the crown for HP, which has gone through somewhat of a transformation itself in recent years. The self-styled global leader in wired, wireless, and SD-WAN solutions that ‘use AI to automate and secure the network from edge to cloud’, is hoping to ease operations across the board with its state-of-the-art solutions. As reported by ChannelE2E, it’s using tech to push enterprises into the future.

Central Intelligence

Make way for HPE Aruba Networking Central. The company have fully gotten their knees under the table at Hewlett Packard, and Aruba has been hard at work, redesigning its flagship technology to simplify operatives, streamline practices and improve productivity. How? By leveraging AI (artificial intelligence) to cut down on manual tasks; with a bit of luck, strained teams can concentrate on higher-value projects as a result.

Heard the term SaaS – Software as a Service? Well, Aruba’s gone one better, providing NaaS (Network as a Service) capabilities to both its customers and partners to acquire, deploy and manage on HPE’s GreenLake platform. These launches serve to take the pain pressure off IT teams – it changes the narrative that the onus is on the worker, or that there is, in fact, a talent shortage. Instead, Aruba’s automation could instead see those same teams prosper by embracing artificial intelligence.

“Networking Central offers Multi-layer physical and logical “sunburst” topology views to transform visualisation of large, complex networks.”
– ChannelE2E

Feature-rich future

In a world that’s still grappling with increasing advancements in AI, it’s a big ask, but Aruba is banking on enterprises being healthier, happier places if technologists take note of Networking Central’s key features. They include operator-centric backend design, intended to enable users across skill levels, and a simplified ‘time-travel’ feature, for a contextually correlated ‘point-in-time’ of a network; if there’s a problem, anyone can rewind to a specific point, a little like a save state snapshot of a video game.

Phil Mottram, the executive Vice President and General manager of HPE Aruba Networking started: “A modernised network is the backbone for powering next-generation digital experience and enabling new business models.” Time will tell how these models shape up, but it’s clear that thanks to the continued, funding, innovation and acquisition of companies such as Hewlett Packard and their new subsidiaries, innovations on the scale of Aruba’s new networking technologies promises to usher in an exciting new age where workers can focus on the future, and not the friction.

Source: https://www.channele2e.com/technology/ai/hpe-aruba-networking-invests-in-ai-solutions-to-ease-pressure-on-it-teams/ 

What solutions would you suggest to further empower IT workers? Do you agree with Aruba? Let us know in the comments!

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