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If there's anything that can drive a telecommuter crazy the fastest, then "online meetings" will definitely get high votes.
Network lag, inefficient communication leads to long meetings...
In case of an emergency when you are out of the house, you will be blinded on the spot.
At this time, people can't help but fantasize, if there is a pair of high-end glasses with the same sci-fi blockbuster, you can work at any time as soon as you put them on, then it feels like it will take off.
Therefore, from the wind of the meta-universe, from the international technology giants to the domestic start-ups, there is no less effort in the direction of "cloud conference".
For example, Horizon Workrooms, a metacosmic office app that came with Facebook's renaming Meta.
Put on VR glasses and draw a space in the room to explain PPT to colleagues "in person".
Microsoft's Mesh for Teams is a similar idea.
Team members enter the same digital space digitally through mixed reality headsets, and the real body may be thousands of miles away, but it does not prevent everyone from clapping and cheering together.
The latest development is the usually a bit torturous nails, and the painting style has become a bit cool.
Recently, DingTalk held a press conference, at which it was announced that it had joined forces with Rokid, a company in the AR field.
Rokid Air AR smart glasses will first be connected to DingTalk XR office solution WorkSpace, creating a digital office space dedicated to individuals.
Lie down on the couch, put on the Rokid Air AR smart glasses, connect the phone dingtalk directly into the workspace, dingtalk messages, meetings, documents... All turned their heads to see.
A new office mode that is more comfortable, portable and more private is opened on the spot.
Well, judging from the video, it's a little bit of a taste.
Break the limitations of physical office space
The effect is cool and cool, this new office experience is not really able to let the workers directly "lie flat", we may as well carefully pick up the products.
Let's start with the most intuitive hardware.
Compared with VR headsets, AR glasses have more advantages in daily office scenes.
Glasses weigh 83 grams and support folding. The extremely light weight does not create a feeling of pressure and is easy to wear for long periods of time. It is also very friendly to myopic people, supporting the adjustment of myopia within 500 degrees.
Solved the problem of wearing comfort, now let's look at the functional configuration in the office scene.
The experience of multi-screen collaboration goes like this:
The current mobile phones and computers are single-screen devices, and when we work on multiple lines every day, we can often only cut the window madly.
Through The Rokid Air AR glasses, DingTalk WorkSpace spreads out task windows such as messages, meetings, and documents in the digital office space.
When people are looking for a job task, they can do it with a twist.
As you can see from the demo video, on the huge aerial screen, on the left is the window of the online meeting, twisting your head and looking to the right, you can make the meeting minutes, and you will not miss other messages.
Conferencing features have also been optimized.
Through The Rokid Air AR glasses, DingTalk WorkSpace moved the original online conferencing function from the mobile phone or computer screen to the user's first perspective. Solve the problems of online meetings with different opinions, chaos and noise.
The middle chat message window also supports "pinning" important people and information.
(For example, "pin" the boss's message above the chat window, and you will never miss it!) ）
As a result, whether sitting, lying down or standing, all kinds of postures do not delay the user's efficient meeting.
The position of various office modules can be adjusted according to needs.
For example, put the most needed function directly in front of the space; or enter the focus mode to look at a fixed screen.
Simply put, it is how comfortable you are and how to come.
As for the remote collaboration landing, let's look directly at the examples.
At present, Rokid AR smart glasses and DingTalk have been applied in specific scenarios.
For example, after wearing the Rokid X-Craft 5G AR explosion-proof helmet, the front-line workers of the Caojiatan Coal Mine in Shaanxi Province can log in to the work assistant through the DingTalk account to achieve free hands.
At the same time, using the Rokid X-Craft 5G AR explosion-proof helmet, the underground maintenance personnel of the Caojiatan Coal Mine in Shaanxi Province can also connect in real time with a large team of engineers on the ground to quickly solve difficult problems in a remote and collaborative manner.
Private office in your pocket
In this way, the advantages of digital hybrid office with AR glasses as the carrier are very distinct.
It is mainly divided into two aspects:
First, it is light and comfortable, easy to carry;
Second, protect privacy and security.
Lightweight and comfortable, easy to carry, it makes it possible to extend the office space from the physical world to the digital space, and also brings a new office experience that is more immersive and comfortable.
Like Rokid Air AR glasses, they weigh less than two eggs.
This is more in line with the needs of ordinary people's daily scenes to wear for a long time, but also can be placed in the pocket of the body.
For business people who often have to run away, taking out their glasses to join the online meeting is indeed a bit of an efficient "ace agent".
On the other hand, the migration of office content to a field of view that only users can see, the improvement in privacy and security is very obvious.
After all, when everyone has to work and hold meetings in public places, no one wants their screens to be easily seen by passers-by.
This point of thinking is also reflected in the voice aspect.
Rokid Air's temples feature a pair of HD directional speakers that provide surround sound while giving a "whispering" experience that is not lacking in morality and privacy.
In this way, wouldn't it be possible to achieve a flat office in the future?
53% of Gen Z expect a hybrid office model
Seeing this, you may still have some doubts in your heart:
There are breakthroughs in technology, but can XR Office really solve the pain points of actual needs?
This answer has been reflected in some industry data.
Earlier this year, Microsoft conducted a workplace survey of more than 30,000 employees in 31 major markets and concluded that —
We are never going back to the pre-2020 office model and are transitioning to a hybrid office model.
53 percent said they would consider transitioning to a hybrid office model in the coming year.
Especially Generation Z, the people born in 1995-2002.
Of them, 58 percent are considering moving to a hybrid work model in the coming year, and 56 percent intend to telecommute.
△ Gen Z Workplace Survey Results, data from Great Expectations: Making Hybrid Work
Obviously, the office model is diversifying, and the influence of space location on the office is gradually weakening.
As the report argues, the impact of remote work on people over the past two years cannot be erased. Even whether it can work efficiently and flexibly has become one of the elements that employees are examined.
△ The data in the figure is from Great Expectations: Making Hybrid Work
On the other hand, Forrester's research report shows that AR/VR is very helpful for improving office efficiency.
For example, there are medical centers abroad that use HoloLens 2 to remotely train clinical personnel and teach them to operate ventilators; Walmart has used StrykerVR on a large scale to train employees.
Especially at the beginning of the epidemic, many XR devices have even become a necessity for enterprises.
Vuforia Chalk's AR remote assistance product is one of the cases. From April to August 2020, in just a few months, the number of their user enterprises has grown from more than 5,000 to more than 10,000, directly doubling.
In this context, it is not difficult to understand why DingTalk and Rokid want to explore the XR hybrid way of working.
Will human fantasies and technological development continue to intersect?
In 1946, when the first computer was born, it was purely "science fiction" to have such a high-end device in hand.
But standing in today, 76 years later, when the personal computer has become the most common thing in life, we will find that the intersection and collision of science fiction and technological progress have never stopped.
The same may be true for digital office, and perhaps for VR/AR.
It is undeniable that these effects are still some distance from the beautiful imagination.
But when the various forces in the technology circle continue to export and converge their top technologies, bringing visible results to the naked eye, an answer has begun to brew and sprout.
What do you think?