Why IT Professionals Should Care About Augmented Reality
An article published this week by IT Brief discusses why IT professionals should care about Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality consumes lots of data but mobile phones, BYOD and shadow IT has prepared IT professionals for an Augmented Reality revolution.
This author believes that the biggest problem IT professionals will face will be data. Although most IT Professionals can deal with data problems at the moment, the article believe that this will soon change due to AR consuming and transmitting large amounts of data. This problem may stop mainstream enterprises from using AR. However even when a few AR applications make it into mainstream enterprise usage, data requirements may be seen to triple or even quadruple which means IT should budget for growth.
Many BYO policies can extend to AR devices with the same application and network platforms tracking how employees use them on the network. And mobile phone security measures such as sandboxing, penetration testing and compartmentalisation can also be equally applicable to any AR device.
The advice for IT professionals is steady provision of bandwidth and data storage ahead of future growth, maintain rigorous monitoring of their organisational endpoints, and keep cyber security threats in the front of their minds.