Christopher Iwata,Nokia’s Head of Research Strategy, over at Nokia’s Leadership Edge site has come up with a fantastic article,that takes our imagination 7 years into the future from where we are right now,to a world in which our environments are “Digitally-Enriched”,where endless options for communication and entertainment will create a fascinating style of life.His story directs us not just to a dream but more towards a reality what they have almost begun to experience in their Research Center,so given the context,a vision of the future where the physical world fuses with the digital world sounds more realistic.Leading us to the “Agenda 2015″ a consumer centric Research Theme consist of eight areas exploiting the true needs to ensure a Digitally Enriched Environment by means of the real evolution of their slogan ” Connecting People”.
Among these eight core areas,Mixed Reality as Iwata explains,“enriching and sharing experiences in fused physical digital worlds. We’re excited about the communication and entertainment possibilities that emerge for spending our leisure and work time as our environment becomes digitally-enriched”
sounds much promising,and quite realistic to justify the smartphone users dreams of a digital future based on a much broadened and vivid social media network,which has been recently unleashed,from our own Imagination and inspiration.Which is indeed a must established concept to assure satisfactorily enough leisure and entertainment to the society with a fast paced life styles.Nokia the foremost trend setter of Mobile Life style arena will certainly succeed in this futuristic scenario and as present day smartphone users we can’t just wait counting days to experience this in real life,for that too an option is there thanks to the innovation of Nano-science researching,The Morph concept developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) in collaboration with the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre (United Kingdom).Another innovative concept brought up in to discussion by Nokia Research center is the Nokia Eco Concept.So all I’m wondering is will it really take 7 years? So better get ready to experience the Mixed Reality in near future.
If you are really interested about the rest of the areas of the Agenda 2015,
- User and context modeling- meeting your needs on your terms. How could you enjoy experiences that adapt to your specific wishes? Understanding how people could reveal their context in a safe way is the starting point for many exciting personalized possibilities.
- Physically personal devices- engaging you emotionally by adapting to your lifestyle and environment. Tapani Ryhänen introduced the research we’re doing to bring autonomous sensing and computing into any physical object in the world and to enable the mobile devices of our imagination. I think the Morph video that his team created together with the University of Cambridge reveals this vision beautifully.
- Human interface- interacting joyfully and intuitively through technology. The future of mobile is about endless possibilities – but this could turn into our worst nightmare without corresponding advances to make the experience truly pleasurable.
And with such a wide range of experiences available to users, which areas excited us the most?
- Mixed Reality- enriching and sharing experiences in fused physical digital worlds. We’re excited about the communication and entertainment possibilities that emerge for spending our leisure and work time as our environment becomes digitally-enriched.
- Creativity- unleashing the creative and collaborative power of people. We’d like to discover how mobile solutions could make it simple and enriching for billions of people connected wherever they are to create and collaborate with each other.
Solving the challenges in the technical environment will be critical to hide the complexity in our vision of the future.
- Scalable service platforms- delivering services to billions of users. We’d like to enjoy a multitude of services whenever we want, so dependability will be a critical element to realize our hopes.
- Internet of things- connecting everything and every place. The real potential of mobility converging with the internet will be set free when we can interact with our environment and discover information about things wherever we want.
- Dynamic wireless- liberating spectrum to expand markets. We figured that all the services people will want will require technological advances to expand the overall wireless market.