Microsoft owns the enterprise
computing space. Windows-powered PCs run a huge portion of the global
workforce. A few day ago, the company demonstrated how its Windows Mixed
Reality initiative could potentially be used in that massive market. During the
keynote address of its annual Build conference, Microsoft invited members of
the Cirque du Soleil team up on stage. The members each donned a Microsoft
HoloLens augmented reality headset and started showing the crowd how these
products can be used in enterprise collaboration.
Together, the team appeared to
devise and design a new stage layout for an upcoming production by summoning,
altering and positioning simple assets from a menu. These objects could be
moved freely by any of the members and all of them could see what was happening
to their holographic layout in real time. All of this represents an impressive
use case for how these headsets, both AR and VR, could be used in Microsoft’s
all-important enterprise market.
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