In the worlds of AR , VR, gaming, and spatial computing, Cathy Hackl and Irena Cronin are renowned. I’ve known them for the better part of 15+ years and they are still among my favorite subject matter experts to follow.

I’m proud to share that their new book, Spatial Computing: An AI Business Revolution, is now available.

I’m also proud to share that I had the privilege of writing the foreword and I get to share it with you here!

About the Book

Spatial Computing: An AI-Driven Business Revolution reveals exclusive insider knowledge of what’s happening today in the convergence of AI and spatial computing. Spatial Computing is an evolving 3D-centric form of computing that uses AI, Computer Vision, and extended reality to blend virtual experiences into the physical world, breaking free from screens into everything you can see, experience, and know.

Spatial Computing: An AI-Driven Business Revolution includes coverage of:

The new paradigm of human-to-human and human-computer interaction, enhancing how we visualize, simulate, and interact with data in physical and virtual locations.

Navigating the world alongside robots, drones, cars, virtual assistants, and beyond―without the limitation of just one technology or device.

Insights, tools and illustrative use cases that enable businesses to harness the convergence of AI and spatial computing today and in the decade to come via both hardware and software.

The impact of spatial computing is just starting to be felt. Spatial Computing: An AI-Driven Business Revolution is a must-have resource for business leaders who wish to fully understand this new form of revolutionary, evolutionary technology that is expected to be even more impactful than personal computing and mobile computing.

Foreword – The Inception of Our New Spatial Reality: Immerse or Die!

Apple had its next iPhone moment with the launch of its Vision Pro in 2024. Like in 2007, Apple yet again shifted the trajectory of computing behaviors by developing an intelligent and immersive Spatial Computing platform. And like in 2007, the world will never be the same. An entirely new operating system unlocked entirely new dimensions. These infinite, layered canvases bestowed users with metahuman capabilities. Now, people in any context can interact with information, content, and each other in ways and in spaces that didn’t exist in traditional physical and digital realms. We thus gain access to unprecedented worlds and experiences with unimagined worlds forming in virtual and augmented realms every day.

But wait, there’s more. Eight or so months before the introduction of Apple’s Vision Pro, OpenAI released ChatGPT, introducing generative AI to the masses. In fact, ChatGPT is widely regarded as the fastest-growing con- sumer internet app of all time, reaching an estimated 100 million monthly users in just two months.1 Generative AI is also in its own way giving users superpowers by augmenting their efforts with Artificial Intelligence. In fact, most apps and platforms will automatically integrate generative AI as parts of its user interface (UI). It will just seamlessly blend in to digital experiences. Added to Spatial Computing, AI-powered experiences supercharge human potential by arming them with a cognitive exoskeleton, augmented and virtual vision, and the ability to interact with computers, robots, data, and one another in three-dimensional other-worldly spaces.

And that’s where this story begins.

Humans are now entering into uncharted portals of hybrid realities that are not only intelligent and immersive, but also transcendent. They augment human capabilities to unlock exponential performance and previously unat- tainable outcomes in evolving hybrid dimensions that foster the intermun- dane relationship between physical and digital worlds.

Cathy Hackl and Irena Cronin are about to deliver a transformative inception by planting the idea of spatial innovation to spark your imagination to create new worlds, new ways of working, new ways of learning, new ways of communicating, new ways of exploring, and new ways of dreaming, remembering, inventing, solving, and evolving.

This frontier between the physical and digital world will be shaped by you and fellow readers. You are the architects of these unexplored worlds. You are the astronomers who discover them. You are the pioneers who explore these new territories. And it’s your vision that defines the next chapter of spatial design, experiences, and human potential.

What a virtual world we now live in! Immerse or die!

Brian Solis
Digital Futurist, Anthropologist, Soon-To-Be 9x Best-Selling Author, Metahuman, briansolis.com