This document discusses augmented reality and its potential to weave technology into everyday life seamlessly. It begins by introducing PTC's Reality Lab team and their work on AR. It then discusses how AR can enhance spatial learning and object recognition like the human brain. The document advocates that AR interfaces that leverage spatial knowledge can reduce cognitive load. It presents a vision for AR integrating various domains like robotics, big data, knowledge graphs and more. The conclusion is that combining AR, VR and other technologies spatially through cross-domain experiences could usher in an era where one unified reality replaces separate technological spheres.

1. Valentin Heun
PTC Reality Laboratory
Team:
Anna Fuste, Hisham Bedri, Christian Vazquez, Benjamin Reynolds

2. 1OMG
Augmented Reality

3. Why are we so fascinated?

4. “A Human Modem”
James Heppelmann, President & CEO PTC

5. Dorsolateral
Prefrontal
Cortex
(DLPFC)
Hippocampus
Inferior
Parietal Lobe
(IPL)
Parahippocampal
Cortex (PHC)
Cerebellum
(CB)
Active Spatial LearningObject Recognition
Modem Data Processing Units

6. Modem Data Throughput
Terminal Desktop Paradigm AR
Spatial LearningObject Recognition

7. “Overall, our review provides strong
evidence that spatial knowledge of
controls and data enables rapid
interaction and information retrieval, and
allows users to focus more of their
cognitive resources on the task at hand,
rather than on the interface.“
Scarr, J., Cockburn, A. and Gutwin, C., 2013.
Supporting and exploiting spatial memory in user interfaces.
Foundations and Trends in Human–Computer Interaction, 6(1),
pp.1-84.

8. “The most profound technologies are
those that disappear. They weave
themselves into the fabric of everyday
life until they are indistinguishable
from it.”
The Computer for the 21st Century
Mark Weiser

9. Everyday Life
Active Spatial LearningObject Recognition

10. 2 Fabric
AR UI for various Technological Domains

11. AR + Robotics

12. AR + Big Data

13. AR + Knowledge (Origami)

14. AR + Speech

15. AR + Digital Twin

16. Many Separated Realities
TechnologyPhones
AR
VR
Screens
Desktop
Electronics
Electronics
Robotics
Mobile
Mixed
AI
On-Site
Remote
transportation
home
industry
nature

17. 3 Weaving
seamless, spatial, cross domain ux - one reality

18. Desktop + AR + Printer

19. Desktop + 3D-Tele-Pres. + AR + Printer

20. Robot + AR + Spatial Programming + IoT

21. Spatial Programming + AR + 3D-Tele-Pres.

22. 4 Scale!
And now?

23. awesome@ptc.com

24. awesome@ptc.com
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