Interesting conversation on eXtended Reality (XR) with Eddie Avil, starting from my background, how I landed up in the XR space and where are we heading…

XROM PODCast

XROM PODCast is a youtube channel maintained by serial entrepreneur, dreamer & a believer Mr. Eddie Avil. This channel has number of interesting conversations with industry leaders in the emerging technology space. Eddie Avil, also runs a marketplace for AR VR hardware and service, visit here https://www.xrbazaar.in/ for more details.

Watch and listen to the podcast here.

Here are highlights of our conversation at the PODCast

My background

IT career started right after graduating from NIT Kurukshetra in 2004. I have been a techie filling the gap between tech and businesses, throughout my 16+ years of journey with Quark, Nagarro and ThoughtWorks. We have discussed what has exited me to pick XR space… 

Opportunities and challenges in ARVR

ARVR (or XR) has been there from quite some time now even before Microsoft Hololens, Oculus and Google Glass of the world, and now trends says that XR will be most explored for enterprises and than consumer segment for next couple of years. XR technology is reaching to its tipping point and businesses are seeing it as one of the savior to recover from Covid19. Upskilling workforce, remote collaboration, simulation of work environment are major use cases. We have discussed a number of opportunities along with challenges are lying there… 

Role of Technology in changing Human Behaviour

Technology become part of life once it start solving real pain area, see how Uber and similar others has revolutionized the commuting, now there is no stranger, we feel more secure than before due to technology. We talked about how people will be wearing technology and how a mobile phone will remain as compute unit for other wearable devices in future. I feel technology will go closer and closer to the need, if my eye want to see something technology need to go there, if my mind need something, technology should go near to head or inside head…

Virtual over Physical

We discussed about how advancement in AI and 5G technologies will fuel XR use cases. Digital twin with AI power behaviour will be the future, when we can try things in virtual world when why to waste time and money on trying with physical things. There has already been great investments going in this direction by Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook of the world…

XR Practice at ThoughtWorks

We have discussed, how we at ThoughtWorks are trying to solve real world problems using technology. Being pioneer in Agile Software Development, we are building practices and sharing our thought leadership for Enterprise XR product development, some point of views from our team are here …

Be the partner of future 

We finished our first discussion with a closing for the industries to come forward and be the partner of future, collaborate and share learnings, and make the world great…