Reporting by XinZhiyuan
Edit: Peaches
【New Zhiyuan Guide】An epidemic prevention policy is to work from home. Video conferencing 2 points on caton, teleconferencing each said their own, all meta-universe era, hit workers remote collaborative work is so difficult?
The era of the meta-universe has passed, why is it still so hard to work?
This week, presumably many friends saw their "health treasure pop-up window" and collapsed in tears. Don't say that you have to queue up to do nucleic acid, you have to miss the salary for a day.
Even after working from home, the video conference is catonized for 2 minutes, and the conference call is said to be different, how to work together remotely?
In today's mixed debate, both Meta and Microsoft have unveiled their vision for the concept.
In August last year, Meta first released a public beta version of the VR collaboration tool Horizon Workrooms, which integrates whiteboard writing, desktop recognition, gesture tracking and other functions.
Immediately after, Microsoft launched mixed reality conferencing platform Mesh in November. People can meet and interact in the form of avatars, share Office files, and so on.
Microsoft founder Gates recently predicted in Weibo that with the normalization of the epidemic, a 3D space with a digital body will carry the demand for virtual meetings in the next two to three years.
Now, Rokid offers a third possibility of collaboration in addition to traditional remote collaboration software and fully virtual VR collaboration - MSpace.
This is an application that enables the fusion and interaction of people, digital space and real space, and will soon be available for download in the Rokid Air store.
Click at the end of the article to view and purchase Rokid Air
It can be said that this is the norm of your future work.
Only do AR, not VR?
MSpace is AR collaboration, not VR collaboration.
Not to mention MSpace, even Apple CEO Tim Cook is optimistic about AR technology.
Why?
In fact, many small partners who have experienced VR will feel uncomfortable with pressure, weight, and vertigo when wearing the headpiece for about 1 hour.
MSpace chooses to allow people to innovate and integrate "people and environments" and "real people and virtual people" interactions in a familiar and more secure real environment, and create a light and comfortable collaboration experience.
No need to worry about "total strangeness"
For an attendee who has not yet experienced VR, to peel off from reality and fully immerse yourself in a virtual world, it is often necessary to go through some psychological construction, and it is difficult to enter the working state at the first time: in the VR world, people will worry that complete immersion will increase the uncertain risk of the real world...
In MSpace, attendees still interact based on what they see and hear in the real environment, and superimpose new spatial interactions in real space. Because it's visible and controllable, a sense of security is preserved to the maximum, allowing attendees to focus more on their work.
There is no need to challenge the limits of physiological sensation
In remote collaboration scenarios, the single interaction time is often long, and the experience comfort is particularly important. The powerful shock experience of VR devices for a long time often makes many sensitive users feel dizzy, and even some users define half an hour as the "vertigo adaptation period".
Rokid's MSpace feature can be used on the company's consumer glasses, the Rokid Air, and for the price of a pair of headphones, it can have an AR remote collaboration function.
In addition, the Rokid Air weighs only 83 grams, which can take into account the comfort of long-term wear; just like wearing a pair of stylish sunglasses, you can also gain insight into your every move in the real world.
Isn't that something that anyone can do?
In the VR remote collaboration scenario, all attendees use the image of a virtual person; but Rokid argues that AR is meant to solve the problem of converging interaction between people, the digital world and the real world.
Therefore, in MSpace, only people in different physical spaces enable "virtual people", and virtual people also need to integrate and interact with the real world:
In MSpace, the physical space of virtual people must first distinguish whether the participants are in the same physical space, and the default is that people in different physical spaces will display the image of virtual people. How to judge whether people are in the same physical space is an important space technology problem that MSpace breaks through.
In MSpace, the position of virtual people and people in the real world will be distinguished, and virtual people will not block people in the real world. How to identify the real environment and be able to distinguish the position of people in the environment is the second important space technology problem that MSpace has broken through.
Collaborative 3D object public and private attributes determine that the object elements of the conference room are added to the participants' real world, you can see virtual objects appear in the real world, and the objects are divided into private and public properties. Objects with private properties, all operations, will only be reflected in your real world; objects with public properties, related operations, will be synchronized in a collaborative space, so that people in different places can cooperate with each other.
More than just meetings
Real-time motion tracking
The "small actions" we say and do in real life will be tracked and reproduced in real time in the virtual world. If you turn your head to look at your colleagues, your vision will also pan, and if you whisper to a colleague sitting next to you during a meeting, be careful, then your avatar will also "desert" in the conference room.
Highly restored "Soundstage Distance Experience"
In order to infinitely approximate the sensory interaction experience of the natural world, MSpace provides a "sound field distance experience", that is, the sound source will be located according to the position of each virtual person in the space.
Industrial production: a closer collaborative experience
In the field of industrial production, different departments can carry out complex work such as product planning, design, and simulation based on the same collaborative scenario. Even remote experts can be connected to MSpace at any time to provide hand-in-hand guidance for R&D, production, and back-end markets.
In-game social: Experience the realistic shuttle of the "virtual twin"
In the social field, you can try: let friends who are far away from home immediately "appear" in your home and sing K together; let parents who are far away from home "appear" in your kitchen immediately, and guide you how to make a vinegar fish by hand; you can call your teammates at any time and play a few games together...
In the future, we must build an ecosystem together
In the future, Rokid will provide technical problems such as virtual people and spatial collaboration that make AR developers prohibitive through the SDK to all developers in the industry, helping developers quickly build AR space collaborative applications and co-create the MSpace ecosystem with Rokid.
In addition, Rokid will provide a complete set of content creation platforms, allowing content creators to flexibly and quickly build AR content: any 3D object in 3D space, such as virtual people's clothes and faces, as well as pets, music, models, and everything else you can think of in the virtual world.
When all this happens, you can work at MSpace, have fun, reunite with old friends or even meet new ones, and that's MSpace!
Learn about Rokid Air here