A company called SpaTIal has developed an AR/cross-reality collaboration/computing platform. The company has now completed a seed round of financing of $8 million. Participating companies include iNovia Capital, Uber co-founder and incubator company Expa founder Garrett Camp, Samsung Next, director of MIT Media Lab Ito Joichi, entrepreneur Mark Pincus and computer scientist Andy Hertzfeld.
SpaTIal plans to use the financing to develop AR products facing the enterprise market. They expect this solution to replace many online communication/collaboration/conference applications such as Google Hangouts, Zoom, and provide convenience for people's various daily work tasks. .
The company’s co-founder and CEo Anand Agarawala said that the future working environment will become more and more dispersed. Using the SpaTIal platform, all conference participants seem to be teleported and gathered in a virtual workspace with a holographic image (which can be scanned by 3D Or directly turn the flat image into a 3D image), and the image of each person will show the expressions and actions of a real person. With AR technology, SpaTIal can integrate collaboration tools such as FaceTime, Skype, Google Docs and Slack into a virtual environment.
He added that this company initially studied VR, but remote meetings are more suitable for AR, because in the AR environment, everyone can see each other, and they can use their own computer and mobile phone at the same time, and even graffiti on the whiteboard in the real environment. Interact with the real environment.
The Spatial AR platform has two major aspects, one is a remote face-to-face virtual meeting, and the other is a set of tools plus an "infinite desktop" that can be projected in the room.
This platform has a very interesting feature, that is, using this platform in AR headsets, you can drag and drop image search results (searching web pages by voice) into the AR environment. For example, when searching for Oculus Go in Bing, in addition to a series of photos, there is also a 3D model extracted from the poly.googl.com 3D model database, which allows users to "try on" the 3D model of Oculus Go by dragging and dropping.
Although in the demo video, we have cooperated with Microsoft HoloLens to demonstrate the functions of the platform, but Spatial is purely a software and can be used on any platform in theory. At present, it also supports web and mobile applications in addition to AR headsets.
To open the AR collaboration space, users first need to wear an AR headset and scan the surrounding environment, and then Spatial will share your environment with other invited meeting participants. The user scans around the room to see and interact with the holographic image of his colleague. More importantly, everyone in the virtual space can share and interact with content such as documents, web pages, and pictures.
At present, the Spatial platform can access 15 to 20 people at the same time. Their goal is to expand the scale and support hundreds of people's meetings at the same time in the future. Different from other collaboration software, this platform does not support the presenter mode (the presenter’s remarks cannot be seen by others). The reason is that the company said that they hope to simulate the real meeting environment as much as possible and give everyone the topic of the meeting. discuss.
It is understood that Spatial is not the only company providing such a solution. Ford X, for example, Ford's incubator is also testing a software that can support remote collaboration.
Developers are currently unable to download this software, because Spatial is still focusing on cooperating with NASA to help plan projects related to the Mars mission.
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