A talk from the Inspire Track at AWE Europe 2017 - the largest conference for AR+VR in Munich, Germany October 19-20, 2017 Annette Zimmermann (Gartner): Gartner Strategic Predictions: What Will Disrupt in Our Lives? Gartner releases its top 10 strategic predictions each year. These predictions look at technology trends in a time frame from 3-5 years and how they impact us at work and in our personal spaces. Looking back over time we see that predictions about the future increasingly become predictions about what disrupts in our lives. This session will discuss an excerpt of Gartner’s top 10 predictions for 2017 and beyond – from 100m people shopping in AR by 2020 to IoT generating 1T USD in savings by 2022 are some of the aspects being discussed.

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Gartner’s Top Predictions for 2017
and Beyond
Annette Zimmermann, Research VP

2. Digital Disruption is Accelerating
Recognize,
Prioritize and
Respond to
the most
disruptive
technology
trends

3. By 2020, 100 Million Consumers Will Shop in
Augmented Reality (AR) Worldwide
Recognize: AR games are
the beginning.
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Prioritize: Smartphones, Tablets,
Head-Mounted Displays
Respond: Deploy AR
for shopping.
Developers: this is your chance to
work with retailers
Near-Term Flag: By year end 2018,
smartphones will still drive 90% of all
AR experiences.
Analysis by: Noah Elkin
Strategic acquisitions:
Apple acquired Metaio in
2015

4. ReasonAnalyze
Last Year, We Postulated That …
The Robots Have Already Begun to Rise
Machines
will create
significant
amounts of
business
content
Generate Inform
Now, "bots" will be a significant part of our reality.

5. By 2020, the average person will have more
conversations with bots than with their spouse.
Who Will You Talk To?

6. By 2020, 30% of Web Browsing Sessions Will
Be Done Without a Screen
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Recognize: "Voice-first"
interactions are here..
Analysis by: Andrew Frank
Prioritize: Conversational User
Experience, Bot Interactions,
Machine Learning
Respond: Build industry use
cases and APIs.
Near-Term Flag: By year end 2017,
5% of consumer-facing websites
feature audio interfaces
(aka voice-enabled "chatbots").

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By 2022, the IoT Will Save Consumers and
Businesses in the Range of US$ 1 Trillion a Year
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Recognize: Predictive maintenance
often saves 10% to 20% over
preventive maintenance.
Prioritize: Fix expensive assets
 Capture quick savings
 Seek short payback periods
Respond: Use a Digital Twin that
provides information of the actual
state of the asset
Analysis by: Benoit Lheureux; Martin Reynolds; Alfonso Velosa
Near-Term Flag: Proliferation of Digital
Twin Models to optimize predictive
maintenance efforts by 2020
Type of
Asset
Capital Total Savings
Large
commercial
buildings
24.8 0.28
Power plants 25.4 0.23
Commercial
trucks
14.4 0.13
Automobiles 27.6 0.11
Large
commercial
aircraft
7.8 0.07
Total 110 0.82
Examples of savings from high-value
asset fleets (in Trillion USD)
Source: Gartner, 2017

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The Seven Digital Giants by Market Capitalization

9. By 2021, 20% of All Activities in Which an
Individual Engages Will Involve at Least One of
the Top Seven Digital Giants
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Recognize: The top seven digital giants
are Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon,
Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent.
Prioritize: Make It Digital  Make It
Programmable  Make It Smart
Respond: collaborate with digital giants'
platforms and ecosystems.
Near-Term Flag: By 2018,
at least two digital giant
brands per household Analysis by: Hung LeHong

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Last Year, We Predicted That by 2018 …
2Million
Employees
worldwide will be
required to wear
health and fitness
tracking devices as a
condition
of employment

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Analysis by: Manjunath Bhat and Annette Zimmermann
By 2020, 40% of Employees Can Cut Their
Healthcare Costs by Wearing a Fitness Tracker5
Recognize: People are nowhere
near physically active enough.
Prioritize: Corporate Health
Monitoring, Fitness Programs,
Fitness Coaching
Respond: Provide wellness programs
that support the use of €fitness trackers
Near-Term Flag:
By year end 2017, 70% of multinational
corporations sponsor the use of wearable
fitness tracking devices.

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