Solutions with XR

Types of XR Solutions

Free your mind.

Before you create solutions for others, get out of your own mind's prison. Take a moment and look around. Without a doubt, everyone around you is awakening to some constraints created by their own extended reality. Physical, mental, financial, relational, and psychological are some examples of prisons that people are stuck in or choose to stay in. Everything looks like it could be pretty comfortable in your extended reality. Once you set your mind free of the constraints on your ability, you'll discover even more solutions than those discussed here.

Now that we've considered that we've been in an extended reality for the majority of our lives, we can start to create some wonderful solutions. It's critical that the individuals creating the solutions realize that they are coming up with original solutions instead of just delivering someone else's projection or ideas as one.

Resist the urge to rely on an "expert" or "trusted sources" to validate YOUR ideas. Have you ever verified it for yourself? Think it through. Ask yourself the difficult prompts. Embrace the challenges and continue to question everything. Remember that within XR, your experience as a human is just as valid as the next person's experience. You need to feel immersed. You need to believe the interactions, the engagement, and the environment.

Not every word might fully describe the areas of focus, but keep in mind the questions that could be asked as XR solutions are created. Consider the following 17 areas for solutions with XR that you can create:

Learning / Indoctrination

With XR experiences, one can practice many digital and physical skills in a simulation or situations that can adapt to your specific actions. Far too often, we only have just-in-time training for users. Users encounter a problem and they need to quickly find a solution. They will attempt acquire the necessary skills to solve the problem at that moment. Some choose to further refine those skills, while others will not need to reference it again until the problem occurs again later.

Many times, users have related skill sets and experience in different areas, but they might be new to a particular tool, device, or setting. They have the ability to pick up something quickly, but they need to appropriate knowledge to succeed.

Clarify what kind of knowledge transfer will occur.

1. Do you want the user to just follow processes or do you want them to discover new efficiencies?
2. Are your experiences robust enough to handle the user who will push the boundaries or question the content?
3. How will your experience adapt to new information?

Practice / Neglect

XR can create a reusable practice environment for skills that may be desired or neglected. Search engines, trusted online communities, and discussion forums create a space for users to find solutions to current issues. Sometimes, the posters or resources discovered some of that knowledge a short time frame before they posted or created content. Users in a 2D or 3D space can try out different skills in an extended reality in the form of sandboxes, demo projects, canvases, or documents before sharing that knowledge or information with a different audience.

Identify the desired or overlooked skills.

1. Will repetition increase memory of how to complete an action?
2. How much critical thinking is required to complete an action?
3. Is this skill something that could be automated in the future?

Safety / Hazards

In some environments, users only get one opportunity to execute a specific task. Their ability to evaluate the dangers while making the appropriate decision can mean a difference between life and death. XR can simulate an immersive environment to help refine reactions, skills, and ability to perform in a new or unusual environment. Truly exceptional experiences can adapt to the actions that the users take instead of a linear path of pre-scripted outcomes.

Prioritize details that appeal to the senses.

1. How can you fully immerse someone's senses in an experience?
2. What details are necessary to increase engagement and alertness in a situation?
3. What are some overlooked experiences that can translate well?

Experiment / Theory

Everyday we're involved in some sort of an experiment whether we acknowledge it or accept it. Many are so asleep to this fact that they recruit people into these experiments by telling them that it's for their own good. Within XR, how a user interacts with or engages with digital information can be indicative of future choices. Each click, swipe, gaze, and action can shape how the future set of experiences will look for users. Extended reality technologies can provide users a way to test their ideas safely before releasing them to the public.

Ensure that users have informed consent and protect their privacy.

1. Does the user know that they are part of an experiment?
2. Have you articulated that a theory is being tested?
3. What does informed consent look like for your XR experiences?

Confidence / Anxiety

Sometimes people have fears, questions, or concerns for real-life situations. Question everything. Keep asking the questions. Some feel comfortable to ask the questions without fear of ridicule. Many others dismiss questions without even questioning for themselves. To them, it is just more comfortable to just follow along asleep. There are physical and mental constraints designed to enslave your mind. Free your mind.

XR experiences can immerse a user in a situation while cultivating their ability and experience. Public speaking, board room presentations, heights, and emergency situations often require a high degree of composure and skill to deliver successfully. Often, someone who is very skilled at their craft might not know the new environment or location. Extended reality technologies allow them to get comfortable with their setting prior to stepping into action. XR experiences can emulate many of the senses to create a space to train and test strategies.

Create experiences that people can explore at their own pace.

1. How can some senses be accurately stimulated?
2. What does success or failure look like in an experience?
3. How much guidance or review is provided?

Innovate / Imitate

As we refine our skills and abilities, we want to continue to push the boundaries of what can be created. The XR experiences that will be created hopefully come from our imaginations. Take your beautiful dreams, ideas, and goals to make them a reality. But be careful to consider how our subconscious mind could be influenced by multiple sources of information. In XR, it can be very easy to copy interactions, environments, or user experience.

Strive to create experiences that fascinate.

1. What does an original interaction look like?
2. How many different ways can a user engage with a digital object?
3. Why do some interactions seem more intuitive than others?

Visualization / Disbelief

XR has tremendous success with showing information. Remember, extended reality spans between the real and digital world. Often times a walkthrough of a structure could be fascinating and helpful to showcase a project. By showcasing plans related to architecture or complex machinery, XR can help users imagine and consider the time it takes to construct a beautiful structure. Revisions can be made for designs that we can make now versus designs that were impossible to make in the past.

Showcase complexity for review before development.

1. What areas need more attention to detail?
2. Are there any dangers to keep in mind?
3. How could small changes affect the rest of the structure?

Art / Destruction

Within our extended reality, there are numerous products that enable self-expression through words, images, sounds, and many other mediums. How a piece of work is portrayed can easily influence the minds of those who are asleep. Clicking a button to "undo" an action is one of the most useful and underappreciated abilities within our extended reality. It allows us to refine and perfect the version that we deem acceptable and want to show others.

Enable to user to have multiple perspectives of their creation.

1. Will the user be able to view their work with a first-person perspective?
2. What are some technical challenges with providing a top-down view?
3. How do users raise concerns about stolen work?

Entertainment / Distraction

As the visuals in our extended reality become more beautiful, we start to lose our connection to what is actually still real. We begin to believe magical fantasies or long for a reality that does not exist in the real world. Sometimes it might be safer for one to be living in a movie than in the real world. At that point, it would be safe to say that one could disconnect from the matrix for a few days and reconnect with nature.

Consider which extended reality users long for.

1. How realistic are the visual effects?
2. What makes incredible storytelling?
3. What topic areas keep most people dreaming?

Travel / Linger

With the rapid increase of extended reality technologies, we can experience another story across our Earth on demand. Some of these visuals inspire people to travel to those destinations for themselves. Other times, some feel complacent about their ability to enjoy it in the comfort of their own home. Adaptive XR experiences can truly be transformative for those who are curious about exploring.

Dare to explore this vast and beautiful Earth.

1. What made your favorite destination so memorable?
2. Who would you want to have on these travel experiences?
3. How can you make an experience feel immersive?

Connection / Disconnection

Sometimes people do not have the means or opportunity to physically connect. Extended reality technologies have changed a flight across the Earth to a quick call. For some, that still doesn't replace the human connection. For others, it actually strengthened their ability to connect. Consider the discussion forums, social media platforms, and Truman Show-esque channels. It is quite easy for someone to create a connection in their extended reality. People are just as easily able to disconnect in extended reality as well.

Consider how XR connections translate to real life connections.

1. How do you justify blocking or silencing a user?
2. Do you enable users to block others who they disagree with?
3. How do your experiences encourage a human connection?

Support / Isolation

As humans continue to awaken to their incredible abilities, many use extended reality technologies to provide support to those who enjoy or struggle with isolation. XR enabled users to share experiences, stories, and their lives with each other in mostly a 2D space. As the extended reality technologies improve, the 3D shared experiences will continue to be more realistic and immersive. This will transform the ability to provide support to more complex situations.

Create intuitive experiences that motivate others.

1. What percentage of the communication is written, oral, or video?
2. How much can both users utilize their senses?
3. What brings joy to people in these situations?

Immersion / Detachment

Some XR experiences help people deal with situations that they need to be acclimated with. Medical, police, firefighting, and military experiences need to be highly immersive to simulate situations that professionals need to be in. As more complex situations are created as XR experiences, it will be difficult to distinguish actual reality from extended reality. Many already can't distinguish that without the immersive experiences. Some feel like they are being pulled in four to five different directions on Earth while moving through life aimlessly.

Take a moment to pause.

Disconnect from ALL extended reality technology sources.

Enjoy being motionless on Earth.

Reconnect with nature and reclaim your mind.

Determine the elements that make up a realistic experience.

1. How responsive do the sounds, visuals, and haptic feedback need to be?
2. What kind of emotions should the user encounter?
3. What research can be done to discover unusual situations?

Healing / Suffering

As the extended reality technologies improve, the experiences will become more immersive and realistic. XR can help people with physical and mental obstacles, while providing relief for individuals during different points in their lives. We all use the recovery, therapy, or healing solutions in some shape or form.

If users cannot differentiate between their extended reality and actual reality, it will be difficult to differentiate between all of those who are masquerading as actors for their benefit. Awakening to such a reality can be very difficult, lonely, and confusing. Exceptional XR experiences can help users cope with this to see the beautiful Earth that has been hidden from them.

Create experiences that can free one's mind.

1. Are there certain types of XR could be harming us as well?
2. How do we prevent users from being addicted or requiring updates on a quarterly basis?
3. What interactions motivate self-healing for users?

Courage / Fear

For the majority of our lives, we have been in an extended reality without realizing it. The experiences shape our actual reality through how we respond to them emotionally. With many situations and issues that arise, some meet them with courage while others might be paralyzed by fear. Extended reality technologies allow us to simulate these situations so we can overcome them. The more immersive experiences become, the more opportunities we have to practice with them. This will cultivate our courage to overcome the fear that is manufactured to control our minds. And it is quite fascinating to explore and research how much of our daily thoughts might be consumed by fear.

Discover the situations that will free minds.

1. What kind of scenes are motivating or debilitating?
2. How can we strengthen and free our minds?
3. Why do our minds succumb so easily to fear?

Information / Propaganda

Remember to question the information that you are contributing to XR. Do your own research and question. Turn off the TV and social media. Trust your eyes when you see the actions that are being taken. Something repeated a hundred times doesn't make it true. Do not rely on the same sources that continue to provide half-truths and inaccurate representations to deliver their narrative about actual reality. Take back control of the information that you contribute to our extended reality.

Heavily scrutinize the information being curated for you before you propagate it blindly.

1. How can you create experiences that embrace questions?
2. Will your experiences handle cognitive dissonance?
3. What kind of extended reality will you create?

Freedom / Enslavement

Lastly, XR can be a tremendous source of creativity, imagination, and dreams. We can embrace it to create a beautiful reality or play victim to a horrifying reality. Innovative solutions in XR can embody the mindset of its developers, designers, and creators. Once we free our mind, we can create so many tremendous solutions in life. Be careful of the actors hiding behind masks or on the internet dictating how you should live your life.

Question everything.

Take off your mask.

Breathe fresh air.

Live fearlessly.

Wake up to your amazing abilities.

Be careful of the reality that you project into someone else's life.

1. How much of your extended reality is projected into the experience?
2. Will people ever find out that you have no idea about your actual reality?
3. When will you become the expert that you trust within your reality?

Welcome to your great awakening to make legendary solutions with XR.