Spatial Shift: Further Reflections on Vision Pro and Spatial Computing | by Fabio Lalli | Apr, 2024

Fresh from receiving my second Vision Pro, which has allowed me to thoroughly explore certain interactions, and from holding two workshops in as many days with CEOs and management teams from two banks and a utility company, followed by a lengthy online discussion last night, I paused this morning during a dawn run to reflect on our discussions and the insights shared.

I am increasingly convinced of the short-term potential of Spatial Computing not just in the entertainment sector but also within the B2B world.

The current major challenge undoubtedly lies in clarifying application domains, as this involves more than merely adding a feature to an app or extending the technological capabilities of an existing device, as seen with technologies like BLE, NFC, or fingerprint recognition.

We are discussing a paradigm shift affecting various aspects: from interaction modes and enhancing design dynamics effectiveness to new training mechanics, exploring new user experiences, and simulation logics that make contexts dynamic, personalized, and unique.

The concept of immersiveness, which until now referred to a typically virtual experience that isolates from the surrounding environment, takes on a new meaning and direction with spatial computing (as a further conceptual evolution of Mixed Reality).

This technological convergence moment moves beyond the traditional idea of immersiveness, accelerating new concepts like spatial design, spatial shift, and new ways of handling proximity and localization, accessing and interacting with enriched information in previously unexplored ways. This entails a complete revisitation of how physical-digital-virtual services are designed and likely definitively steers the concept of the metaverse (which

I continue to assert is not dead but more alive than ever, simply no longer under the media spotlight or marketing agency coffee discussions) toward a fully augmented reality. Here, content is not isolated but interacts with and within the real environment in a bidirectional manner, resulting…