Virtual Reality meets Decision Support

Have you noticed that Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality seem to be the next big thing lately? Whilst the concept has been around for years, it seems to be trending strongly this year, perhaps because applications are starting to make use of recent technology advances.

So where do these technologies fit into the future of OSS?

Virtual Reality is exactly that – it’s all simulated / virtual.

We already use simulations in OSS with mock data running through our existing tools, perhaps for testing, training or demonstration purposes. We can even simulate sequences of events replicating real-time such as playing streams of alarms or performance counters.

Perhaps its not just mock data but even playback of recorded events to evaluate what occurred and what could be done differently. Taking this concept a step further, we could play forward future scenarios such as network expansion, cutovers or run contingency planning sessions so that we can learn how to handle catastrophic situations.

Okay, so these aren’t exactly the most immersive examples of VR, but perhaps when our Command and Control Centres utilise more gesture-based processing technologies they will more closely resemble what you think of as VR. Even more so when simulations are run across multiple domains in unison.

The part I’m excited about is how decision support systems can use machine learning algorithms to learn from all these simulated situations as well as the accumulation of real data and present suggestions to operators as they go through their daily tasks.

Now onto AR. Augmented Reality is again just that – augmenting a real world experience with value-added information. We’ll take a closer look at how AR can be leveraged by OSS tomorrow.

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