Mixed reality is a blending of the physical and digital worlds in which users may interact with digital and real-world objects while maintaining a presence in the physical world.
Why Mixed Reality and Why Now?
- The opportunity to enhance Human Cognition (Cognition - The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.)
- Mixed Reality is recognized as the Third Way of Computing, the first being Personal Computing and the second being Smartphones. It is also considered Intelligent Edge.
Unique Value of Mixed Reality
- Create, collaborate, learn in new ways.
- Increase efficiency and quality
- Empower all employees
Introducing Mixed Reality in Power Apps
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Power Apps is being used by thousands of organizations to digitize and automate existing business processes. The low-code application development platform allows everyone, from the professional developer to the first line worker, to quickly build apps that help improve their business.
Capabilities in Power Apps for Mixed Reality
1. Validate fit before work begins
Source: Microsoft
When you are working in the real world, you need to understand physical spaces. Now in Power Apps, you will be able to use 3D models or virtual volumetric representations to find out if a pathway is large enough; if the product will fit, or how placement might impact the line of sight.
2. Take Measurements
Source: Microsoft
When your workflow requires understanding dimensions of the physical world, you will be able to take linear or volumetric measurements directly through the Power App. Use the results to kick off automated processes or store these back into your data source.
3. Communicate better with 3D models
Source: Microsoft
When you need to visualize how products will look in a space, you will be able to bring 3D models into Power Apps. Leverage the Common Data Service to store these models as native data types (similar to images) or use existing data connectors to access models from other locations such as SharePoint and One Drive. Your users will be able to view and interact with 3D models, place them in the real world, and take a photo of the scene to share with others.
4. Communicate better with 2D Models
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If you don’t have 3D models – no problem. They are not the only way to leverage mixed reality. Traditional images like jpgs and pngs can also be placed in the real world to help visualize how a product might exist in that space.
Introducing Mixed Reality with SharePoint Spaces
Source: Microsoft
SharePoint spaces is a web-based, immersive platform, which lets you create and share, secure, and extensible mixed reality experiences. Add a new dimension to your intranet by using 2- and 3D web parts to create your mixed reality vision.
Building space is a lot like building a modern site - that is, you create the space and choose options such as structure, background, and theme. Then add web parts for your 3D objects, 360 Degree images and videos, 2D images, and text, and more.
Check out our Webinar on Exploring the Power of Mixed Reality with Power Apps and SharePoint Spaces
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Mixed Reality is the merging of the real and virtual world to produce the new environment where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time.
It’s a combination of VR and AR. VR means Virtual Reality. This provides a virtual experience which is completely digitally created. User can enter to the virtual world by wearing VR headsets. As user moves his head, they can look around in three dimensions. AR means Augmented Reality. This augments reality by overlaying virtual objects on top of it. Example: Instagram Filters or Snapchat filters. User can’t interact directly with virtual objects in AR.
We can achieve Mixed Reality in Microsoft 365 using the following Microsoft Product.
1.SharePoint Spaces
2.Power Apps
Chapters for this session:
•Overview of Mixed Reality
•Get Started with SharePoint Spaces
•Real World Use Cases and scenarios for SharePoint Spaces
oProduct Showcase in Mixed Reality
oVirtual Training with SharePoint Spaces
oVirtual Onboarding with SharePoint Spaces
•Get Started with Power Apps Mixed Reality
•Real World Use Cases and scenarios for Power Apps Mixed Reality
oOnline Shopping Application with 3D Viewer Capability
oView 3D objects in Mixed Reality
oMeasure Distance, Area and Volume with Power Apps in real time
oView Shape in Mixed Reality
The session is focused for Business Users. Here, we have covered the majority of the concept for Mixed Reality in traditional intranet as well as in Power Apps.
Recording of live session:
Conclusion:
This is how the Power of Mixed Reality works with SharePoint Spaces and Power Apps. Isn’t that amazing?
AI refers to the simulation of human intelligence in the Business Applications. With the help of AI, we can automate so many business processes without any human interactions.
With Power Platform AI Builder, we can utilize AI capabilities inside our Power Apps and Power Automate (MS Flow). Today, we are covering several real-time use cases and scenarios in order to see the power of AI in Power Apps. Please check the full video session of webinar, covering the followings:
Chapters of the session:
Overview of AI
Overview of Power Platform AI Builder
Custom AI Model
Pre-Built AI Model
Real-life use case and scenarios where we can use Object Detection AI Model
Real-life use case and scenarios where we can use Form Processing AI Model
Real-life use case and scenarios where we can use Prediction AI Model
Real-life use case and scenarios where we can use Category Classification AI Model
Real-life use case and scenarios where we can use Entity Extraction AI Model
The session is more focused for Business Users. Here, we have covered all custom AI models available in AI Builder.
Recording of the live session:
Conclusion:
This is the Power of AI in Power Apps which can be utilized with the help of AI Builder in Power Platform. Happy PowerApping!!!
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