Extended Reality for Knowledge Work in Everyday Environments

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current state and future challenges of using extended reality technologies like VR and AR to transform everyday environments into productive workspaces for knowledge workers.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the current technology landscape and proposes future steps to overcome open challenges in deploying XR for knowledge work.

Findings

Current XR devices are improving but still face usability challenges.

There are significant open research questions in integrating XR into daily work environments.

The paper outlines future research directions to enable XR-based knowledge work.

Abstract

Virtual and Augmented Reality have the potential to change information work. The ability to modify the workers senses can transform everyday environments into a productive office, using portable head-mounted displays combined with conventional interaction devices, such as keyboards and tablets. While a stream of better, cheaper and lighter HMDs have been introduced for consumers in recent years, there are still many challenges to be addressed to allow this vision to become reality. This chapter summarizes the state of the art in the field of extended reality for knowledge work in everyday environments and proposes steps to address the open challenges.