Extended Reality - VR, AR, MR Applications and Future

Stephen Rhind-Tutt,
President, Coherent Digital LLC
Special Library Association
June 30th, 2020
Extended Reality (XR)
Virtual Reality, Extended Reality and Mixed Reality Applications and their
Future

© COHERENTDIGITAL.NET 2
Company Overview
▪ Founded 2019
▪ 12 employees with 170+ years’ experience
in libraries and electronic publishing
▪ Mission: “Tame wild content and make it
useful”
▪ Developing VR products

Quick Overview
of XR, VR, MR,
AR…

What is XR?
Reality
Augmented Reality
- Overlays information on
the real world
- No spatial awareness
Mixed Reality
- Mixes digital content with
the real world
- Reacts and responds to
your space
Virtual Reality
- Entirely new world
- Occludes your vision
The Real World
Computer Generated World

Why is it a big deal?
Machines that
project into our world
We enter the
world of the
machine
1844 2010

When something is:
• Needs to be seen in 3 dimensions
• Needs to be seen in situ
• Needs rich or distant interaction
• Needs perspective
• Needs spatial context
• Needs immersion
• Too dangerous
• Too small or too large
• Too precious
• Too complex
• Inaccessible
• Too hard or expensive to get to
When is XR needed?
Immersion Interaction

Why is it a big deal?
It’s the codification of experience
• On demand
• Replicate
• Standardize
• Deliver at distance
• Analyze
• Project

Press reports that VR is in trouble…

• VR devices: Deploy VR easily across Oculus Quest ($399), HTC
Vive ($499) and MS Hololens ($3,000)
• Mobile Platform: Ability to view 3D/VR content via mobile platforms
(Android/iOS) using glasses like Google Cardboard and Samsung
VR. (<$100)
• Immersive Virtual Environments: CAVE, holographic projection
(>$10k)
• 3D printing: print objects from STL files where appropriate ($500-
$50k)
• Standard PC or Mac Browsers: Ability to view, browse, rotate,
embed 3D/VR content using standard keyboard and mouse
Special Hardware

Autodesk Suite – CAD/CAM, 3D models,
animation, XR, simulations
Blender– Open Source, 3D models, animation, VR,
simulations
Unity & Unreal – leaders in VR world creation
Google Blocks, SketchUp and MS Paint 3D
– simple, easy to use modeling
Special Software…

Lots of incompatibilities
Application
Application Interface
Hardware
Headsets

…just like it used to be with personal computers
Apple Mac Wang
Dedicated
media
Dedicated
applications
Dedicated
operating
system
Dedicated
hardware
WordPerfect/IB
M/MS-DOS

• Content Selection
• Evaluation
• Licensing
• Expense
• Hardware set-up
• Software set-up
• Training
• Dissemination
• Interoperability
Barriers

Overall the market is growing…

Gartner Hype Cycle

Technology is improving…

19
Journalism
(USC)
Anthropology
(Duke University)
Medicine
(Rowan University)
Virtual Tours
(Boise State University)
Sculpture
(Franklin Institute)
Engineering
(Lewis & Clark C. College)
Urban Studies
(U. Minnesota, Duluth)
Psychology
(Stanford University)
Mathematics
(Stockton University)
Architecture
(St. Thomas University)
Art & Design
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Biology
(Arizona State University)
Chemistry
(University of Oklahoma)
Theatre
(University of Kansas)
Education
(U. North Texas)
Dance
(U. Minnesota, Duluth)
Physics
(Virginia Tech)
Archaeology
(Oxford University)
Widespread use in higher education…

Impact – Law Library

OU College of Law
Crime scene replication in VR
Impact – Law Library

Infinite “Clay” for sculpting Unlimited reference images Robust Import/Export Options
Impact - Medicine

Library & Information Professional role
• Content Selection
• Evaluation
• Licensing
• Expense
• Hardware set-up
• Software set-up
• Training
• Dissemination
• Interoperability

https://www.clir.org/2019/02/new-report-explores-leading-role-for-
academic-libraries-in-supporting-3d-vr-for-research-and-teaching/
“Libraries may be the ideal place to
facilitate communication around [virtual
reality’s] critical and creative use.”Page 9.
“Libraries are promoting…3D assets as
a means of providing new forms of
knowledge”Page 24.
Role of Libraries

https://www.clir.org/2019/02/new-report-explores-leading-role-for-
academic-libraries-in-supporting-3d-vr-for-research-and-teaching/
“enhance the profile and …relevance
of the … library both as the custodian
and curator of all forms of research
and…data, and as a catalyst for
innovation.”Page 9.
Library/information professional role

Multiple meta-
studies show
efficacy in a wide
range of
scenarios
Focus on counseling & social work

“I love helping people with anxiety or fears because
they can improve quickly…. VR [delivers] faster, more
effective treatment using realistic simulations of
stressful situations. I offer virtual reality therapy as
part of treatment for: fear of flying, fear of
heights, fear of driving, needle phobia (fear of
needles, injections, donating blood, or medical
procedures), fear of public speaking, job interview
anxiety, fear of enclosed spaces, elevators or public
transit, and fear of spiders or cockroaches….”
VR: Should it become best practice for Exposure?
APA TMS Conference, 2019
Dr. Elizabeth McMahon, PhD, Practicing Therapist
Practitioners actively using it…

VR: Should it become best practice for Exposure?
APA TMS Conference, 2019
Dr. Elizabeth McMahon, PhD, Practicing Therapist
• Uniquely suited for accepted, effective
exposure, immersive, evocative, ”real”
• Intensity & pace of exposure are controlled
and tailored to client needs while you guide,
support and mentor
• Aspects of the feared situation can be
manipulated in ways impossible in real life
while protecting confidentiality
Practitioners actively using it…

Mindscape Commons
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• 200 virtual experiences
in mental health
• Open Directory
• Distance learning
• Distance therapy
• Research
• Empathy training
• Library of virtual
emotions

• XR has substantial applications in research, training and
much more.
• Despite multiple barriers to its adoption it’s growing quickly
• It’s another form of content just like books, journals and
data.
• Information professionals (librarians) are essential to its
deployment
Summary
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