Spatial Beta

Collaborate from anywhere in AR

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Collaborate from anywhere in AR

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Team collaboration software

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Virtual office platforms

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Remote workforce tools

Introducing Spatial, a brand new way to collaborate in Augmented Reality. Turn any room into an infinite workplace and remotely work together as if you were face to face. Watch the full video at https://spatial.is

Launch tags:Design Tools•Productivity•User Experience

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One layer for memories, skills, and rules across any agent

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MightyScout

Congrats this is really really cool. Can you explain what "Shot in real time using Spatial" means? Like what am I viewing exactly, literally what someone who had the VR glasses on would see if they were watching these groups of people interact?

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7yr ago

Spatial 1.0

Maker

@anderson760 so we basically used an advanced version of Microsoft's Spectator view. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us... We basically strapped a HoloLens to a RED camera so that the camera was a "user" in the Spatial scene. We then rendered the graphics that user would see offline as a CG layer and composite it with what the RED taped. That way the camera sees the exact same thing as a user in the scene. Pretty cool process, we hope to write about it some day.

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7yr ago

Gather

@anderson760 @anandx I'd love to see the write up on how you did it.

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7yr ago

Spatial 1.0

Maker

Hi everybody! I'm one of the founders of Spatial. We've been working very hard on this for 2 years and just came out of stealth. We'd love to hear everybody's feedback and questions, there's a lot of details in there that we didn't explain in our first video, so we'd know what people would like us to break down in further videos. We hope you like our vision for the future of collective computing!

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7yr ago

@anandx This is so ridiculously cool, congrats. I'd love to see more than a promo—like a deep dive into a workflow across a phone/computer to hololens/magic leap in a single session. For VR devices is it similar to Bigscreen, or is there some extra magic with for eg. people sharing space and objects across devices? Love where this beautiful future is heading :)

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7yr ago

Free Privacy Audit

@anandx How much will this cost, when is it available, and what platforms will this work with? I see Hololens & MagicLeap in the video both. Very interesting.

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7yr ago

Spatial 1.0

Maker

@laser_nite Thanks for your wonderful comments! Our initial video was more about introducing our vision but there is a lot of interesting things going on under the hood we hope to break down in the future. If you have any specific questions please let us know. In VR we do a few interesting things. VR users actually have much more "room presence" of what the room looks/feels like because we align a 3d scan of the room into the space. Also the input is cleaner so we have some neat gestures as well. Thanks for the comments!

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7yr ago

Spatial 1.0

Maker

@arlogilbert Thanks! We are currently working with companies who are using this out across their organizations, pricing depends on how much customization they need. It is available for enterprise usage now. We are hardware agnostic, but AR is our primary platform so HoloLens & Magic Leap are the lead devices. Users can join from VR as well phone or our web app. In the future we are very excited about general commercial availability once AR headsets become affordable. We are starting a trusted tester program for folks with AR/VR hardware that folks can signup for here https://spatial.is/signup Hope that helps!

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7yr ago

@anandx Very Cool guys. Love the cross platform support. I'm a little unclear what this means when it says shot in real time? It doesn't quite look like that because of field of view hardware limitations. Regardless, hats off, excited for the future of well-designed spatial computing.

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7yr ago

Sorry guys but it's just another cool gadget. The promo video is an unsuccessful attempt of showing the advantages of such way of communication and collaboration. Can you show a real case that helps people work on everyday basis? Does showing a moodboard or a couple of notes/ images requires such technology? I just can't see any real value of this product yet.

Pros:

I really can't find any.

Cons:

unnecessary distraction in a real collaboration

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7yr ago

TalkTastic

I kind of agree for the most part. I could see this being useful in some kinds of presentations around like architecture or event planning with maps. That said moving sticky notes around in 3d and seeing my co-workers floating avatars is kind of unnecessary to being productive.

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7yr ago

Think about surgeons and physiotherapists telemanipulating robots; I would love to try it producing a feature film which with due arrangement with the estates, if any, could include dead personality avatars obtained from photographs or other archival sources. For example, I would like to re-enact the battle of the Dardanelles in VR with the protagonists and radiocontrolled models in a landscaped pool; if voice recordings are available they can be added to the screenplay.

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7yr ago

I think you're wrong - I think this is the perfect tech for crime show detectives to figure out who the killer was.

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7yr ago

There are a ton of obvious applications especially with remote workers. This would be a huge help for agile teams who has remote team members. Kanban or scrum boards could be leveraged. Remote workers could more fully participate in ceremonies like Sprint planning.

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7yr ago

really interesting, great job with the demo video as well. to @rrhoover's point, increasingly more important as teams are distributed. are there certain verticals you guys are going after first? seems cross platform but curious if you encounter and pushback from people on having to incur headset costs as well, or if you are looking for employers / types of businesses that are likely to own them already. looking forward to following the journey more closely!

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7yr ago

Spatial 1.0

Maker

@rrhoover @yesitsmecrissy exactly. going after enterprise first. if they're a company that has already bought a HoloLens/MagicLeap than even better.

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7yr ago

Leap.ai

Y'all be living in 2018. Meanwhile we out here in Year 3000 🙏🏾 Great stuff @anandx @jinha_lee What are the major hurdles that remote teams have/will face(d) in implementation and adoption? I can imagine this can be tiresome and the implementation cost may outweigh the benefits involved

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7yr ago

Spatial 1.0

Maker

@jinha_lee @tabish_gilani thanks! The year 3000 is dope btw. Our implementation is quite easy since there's no hardware installation that even lightweight video conference rooms need. Just walk in, turn on the HoloLens, scan the room (which is cached for next time) and you're in Spatial! The avatar we generate within 4secs from a 2D photo. And its portable, working from home is really fun because all 10 of our teammates are virtually in my house. Year 3k y'all!

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7yr ago

Product Hunt

As more teams hire remote talent and build distributed teams, tools like this will become even more valuable. Of course I and others are immediately skeptical when seeing demos like this after previous hyped projects (Magic Leap comes to mind) never deliver what was promised (at least not in their first gen version). I'm curious how far out this is from consumer adoption, @anandx. Also what's the biggest hurdle to get there so far?

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7yr ago

Spatial 1.0

Maker

@rrhoover Hey Ryan! I'm a big fan of product hunt and long time user. We are very aware of the hype in the space and are also sensitive to it. For example, we took great pains to film the video in real time with people actually in Spatial and using the features. You can see some of the imperfections shine through. Regarding consumer adoption I think the main hurdle is price. I think with Spatial people are already finding ways that it can deliver productivity/collaborative benefits. But $2-3k is just out of reach for most consumers to justify the value. That's why we're starting with businesses who can afford that investment. It's our "Tesla Roadster" or "Uber Black" strategy. But we are very excited to get our technology in the hands of everyday people!

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7yr ago

This is really exciting, and the type of thing I have been dreaming about for years as a developer. Even just having several AR live and adjustable screens for coding (think terminal, browser, text editor, etc.) would have me jumping for joy. add in collaboration (I work partially remote and fully remote on some projects) and capacity to add another visual information layer to my office.... Gosh! If you'd like someone else to pilot your product PM me! We would definitely be interested in helping in any way we can at my company.

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7yr ago

Spatial 1.0

Maker

@nickschwaderer its quite incredible to have all the zillions of tabs/windows you have open finally able to breath in the room around you. I love it 😍

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7yr ago

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