Emerging IT/AV technologies

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I need to write to about the the latest emerging IT/AV technologies coming up (for working environment/universities), can anyone help me with topics i could write about. I was thinking of increasing virtual/online meetings, webinars and e-learning. Increasing use of cloud based applications and services. What else can i mention/bring up?
Thanks in advance guys
 
I'm not convinced about the success of VR. It's been emerging since the 1990's. I remember playing arcade games in the Trocodero in London with a VR headset on. I just don't think it will be successful until the technology can be embedded into something small and light enough to replace your normal spectacles. However I do see augmented reality exploding in versatility and use. Imagine driving down the road and a heads up display showing details about the area around you superimposed on the windscreen. Or imaging being able to hold up your phone and it tells you everything about the person standing in front of you, superimposed over them on the screen.

Eventually it will make itself to small glasses and even smaller contact lenses. So you'll walk everywhere seeing partial reality and partial augmented reality.
 
I'd go the IOT route. It's not really hit universities yet but it will devices that understand what course you are an adjust accordingly, could be proximity stuff (" did you know your instructor for course xyz is free now"), through to TVs switching to foeign channels for language students, or the library knowing which students are in the library so they can prepare to help on a particular topic.
 
Voice and face recognition along with AI is going to be massive soon. The likes of Alexa, Siri, etc, are now getting very clever. Within a few years we really will be able to walk into a room and as the lights automatically turn on, we get greeted with "Hello Hades" as it recognises you. Then you start having a conversation with it about putting the dinner on, setting alarms for tomorrow, ordering shopping for you, etc. It's already here now but it will become far more integrated and fluent.
 
IoT, for sure.
Mobile device payment services (MST specifically)
Infrastructure as a service
"As a service" in general.
Augmented reality for virtual shopping.
 
Thanks guys.. also need to detail the support challenges for these technologies and how these could be overcome
 
Software Defined Networking or Software Defined WAN. The latter is something that’s going to be a game changer, behind the scenes, in the coming 2-5 years for most organisations.
 
I work in a school and iot / byod and cloud based learning are by far the most important things we need to gear up for in the future.
 
skaif said:
I work in a school and iot / byod and cloud based learning are by far the most important things we need to gear up for in the future.
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What do you mean by cloud based learning? Are they just online courses or something more?

I do think with the cost of uni fees nowadays that remote learning will become a thing soon. People are being priced out of uni but could maybe afford to live at their parents and study online instead (a bit like the open university I guess, but more widespread).
 
wijcc said:
Thanks guys.. also need to detail the support challenges for these technologies and how these could be overcome
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What's it for and how many topics? Perhaps you'd need to chose some/state which you're going for before people comment on that aspect further... presumably if multiple topics that you don't necessarily know much about yourself then this is going to be a bit of a broad and shallow/general overview?

Hades said:
I do think with the cost of uni fees nowadays that remote learning will become a thing soon. People are being priced out of uni but could maybe afford to live at their parents and study online instead (a bit like the open university I guess, but more widespread).
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The open university is already available globally with tutorials being available online etc.. and exams sat in regional centres, you can't really get more widespread than that unless we start to colonise mars!

I would have liked to see them take a big gamble in competing with MOOCs by publishing their materials online to be accessed for free (though this removes the market of retirees who take courses for fun funded by a dodgy govt loan system that means they'll never pay back the funding)... at the moment they just offer pretty mediocre stuff for free whereas the proper courses that you can take for credit aren't available. With the MOOCs on the other hand the material is free to audit and you pay for the assessment, exercises, tutor support etc... The OU had a massive advantage/head start in terms of the quantity of courses they've already got etc.. but they don't seem to want to go down this route. Places like Georgia Tech on the other hand have found it viable to offer say a full Masters Degree in computer science online, for some fairly hefty (by UK standards) fee (albeit cheap by US standards) yet the material for the modules (video lectures etc..) is available complete free via Udacity. I think if the OU had done this it would have likely attracted various US students who already often pay over the odds for University education (and for whom it isn't uncommon to take a more flexible approach juggling a job and study) and perhaps hadn't heard of the OU...

Though to bring it back to the main topic MOOCs are clearly relevant here - perhaps you could take a look at some of the methods used for assessment/verification etc.. for example AFAIK coursera now has some process whereby you attempt/submit assessed work while being filmed on a web cam and need to have submitted some government issues ID to them (AFAIK they might also monitor keystrokes etc..)
 
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All this VR tech is going to come mainstream just in time to render the, by then newly completed, high speed rail network a hugely expensive white elephant...
 
Malt_Vinegar said:
IoT, for sure.
Mobile device payment services (MST specifically)
Infrastructure as a service
"As a service" in general.
Augmented reality for virtual shopping.
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skaif said:
I work in a school and iot / byod and cloud based learning are by far the most important things we need to gear up for in the future.
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IOT & BYOD definitely would be my go to. Security and support is a major concern for both.

IoT is going to be heavily dependant on networks, more bandwidth yet again, power. Integration with bms etc etc
 
AI & IoT probably the 2 at the forefront of people’s minds in business. Think about the data aspect of connected devices and how you are going to have to automate areas of your business to service these additional volumes of data. Think about self service, using bots to automate and support the mundane, leave the people for the complex etc
 
SD-WAN has already approached the maximum possible saturation of buzzword-usage, with charlatans hopping onto the bandwagon to decide anything that connects a router config with another service now qualifies as "software defined". So be careful when trying to research it.
 
Caged said:
SD-WAN has already approached the maximum possible saturation of buzzword-usage, with charlatans hopping onto the bandwagon to decide anything that connects a router config with another service now qualifies as "software defined". So be careful when trying to research it.
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Agreed. But in its truest sense of seperation of data and control planes, it truly is a subject worth writing about. It will (and already is) save enterprises millions in the cost of expensive circuits, not to mention all the benefits that encompasses such a deployment.

If you ignore the charlatans trying to sell it as the Swiss Army knife of the networking world, you’ll find some very good stuff. It’s more compelling too, given that it will likely underpin most of the stuff already mentioned in this thread.
 
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