ARducate Opens a Window on Augmented Training at Microsoft on Fifth Avenue and Instructional Design Takes one Leap Forward

Yesterday, Monday October 30th at the New York City Microsoft flagship location on Fifth Avenue the future met the present. In a private setting reserved for augmented reality usability testing the public for the first time interacted with the company’s working prototype. The ARducate production team lead by the founder Dimitrios Konstatntakos presented a working model of their augmented reality model to a large group of preselected guests. The event was by invitation only in order to give the opportunity for everyone to attending for hands on participation, the time to ask in depth questions and interact for a good amount of time with the prototype which delivered in every case flawlessly.

From the instructional design perspective Augmented Reality training is in our immediate future. The advent of such tools has made it inevitable. Microsoft HoloLens are basically self-contained, holographic computers you can wear and demand a great need of software programming and UX design along with ID to be effective in their field applications. From basic design applications, to exploring abstract or concreate concepts as they appear in the physical world and interacting with them will make this technology a standard training tool.  

I foresee an emerging need for augmented instructional design course experts that will interact with the programmers and the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to create training for the augmented reality domain.