A Journey Through the Spatial Computing Spectrum
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From AWS Blog
During his 2022 Invent conference keynote, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said that “3D will soon be as pervasive as video” and that “3D technology has permeated our world.” Spatial computing is a rapidly growing field that involves the use of advanced technologies to simulate and manipulate physical space.
In a recent blog post, Heidi Buck at Amazon Web Services (AWS) shares that she was excited to hear the above statement and explores the spatial computing spectrum, which ranges from 3D modeling and mapping to virtual and augmented reality simulations.
On the left-hand side of the spectrum they show technologies that are more virtual or cloud based (more data). On the right-hand side you’ll see technologies that are more at the physical edge (more atoms). While not every spatial experience will use each of these technologies, when placed on a spectrum like this, it becomes easier to see how the combination of virtual and physical can support different spatial computing use cases.
From AWS Blog
Heidi’s team has adopted these four pillars to describe spatial computing enablement at AWS:
Infrastructure – AWS strives to have the widest and deepest set of building blocks to enable spatial experiences. We help customers innovate and protect their investments in IP, data, and processes by being the best place to build a spatial experience.
Partners & Tooling – AWS focuses on providing a broad ecosystem of partner and AWS solutions, giving customers a choice across the full stack, from SDKs to turn-key solutions, allowing customers maximum flexibility to incorporate spatial experiences.
Open Standards – AWS strives to reduce cost and increase efficiencies for customers and partners by relentlessly promoting open interfaces, standards, and being device agnostic.
People – AWS has technical experts with years of experience around key technologies, as well as Field Service teams
She mentions that spatial computing is what powers a diverse set of core and supporting technologies and that it is these technologies that will enable your data to reach and impact so many users.
In fact, it’s her team’s goal to make AWS the best place to build, deliver, and manage spatial computing workloads at scale. Get more details by reading her complete blog post here.
