Characteristic Barriers to the Implementation of the Roadmap for Augmented Reality Technology Development Program

The paper discusses the characteristic barriers for the development of a detailed map of the Program for the Development of Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) Technologies. The team of authors took part in the development of an alternative version of such a roadmap, since the main executor was another consortium of experts. An alternative point of view is always useful, in particular also because so far, the specified roadmap has not gone beyond the stage of discussion, it is theoretically possible to make amendments and additions to it. At the same time, even in case of its approval, a five-year term has been released for its implementation. During this period of time, possible adjustments to plans, opening of unrecorded technological barriers with which to fight. Therefore, this paper may be useful for those who are planning the development of these technologies, and for those who will work on these plans. The article contains the results of an in-depth analysis of the situation and forecasts on this basis, made during the expert consultation process of the main developers of the roadmap (some of the authors were among the authors of the final roadmap to be submitted for approval by the Government of the Russian Federation)

Critical Technologies in the Cluster of Virtual and Augmented Reality

Technologies of creating new products in the field of virtual reality have not only been widely developed, but have already reached the payback stage - primarily in the areas of computer games and simulators for drivers and operators of complex technology, including spacecraft, airplanes, helicopters, cars, etc. As a rule, when discussing these technologies, they add socalled technologies of augmented reality to them. This is logical, but the problem is that, for example, with government funding for the development of these two technologies in a single cluster of programs, there is a danger that all actual projects will be directed to commercialization in the field of virtual reality, whereas this is not so important, since may develop in ways of selffinancing. In this case, there is already a tendency to replace the enlarged concept only with its simplest component, i.e. The term “virtual reality” is used as a synonym for “virtual and augmented reality”, which is completely erroneous. This article aims to distinguish between these terms. To this end, a list of critical subtechnologies has been developed, which is divided into two subsections, one of which relates only to augmented reality technologies. The article may be useful in refining the state support program designed to develop this critical end-to-end digital technology

Analysis of Barriers to the Development of Industrial Internet of Things Technology and Ways to Overcome Them

The development of the digital economy requires the compilation of a roadmap for the development of all the end-to-end technologies included in the cluster of technologies that need to be developed to a new level. At the first stage, anticipating decisions on state financing of this cluster, a list of critical end-to-end technologies is compiled. The second step is the preparation of roadmaps for each of the selected critical technologies. As a rule, many experts are involved in drawing up roadmaps, including foreign experts. As a rule, the team of such experts is headed by an organization that has received instructions to develop a roadmap on a competitive basis. Of course, not all the wishes of all experts are taken into account by such an organization; therefore, there may be alternative opinions and alternative roadmaps, or additions to the developed roadmaps. If the roadmap developed by the governing organization is approved, alternative documents are only of perhaps scientific interest. If the roadmap developed by the core team of experts is not approved due to its insufficient completeness, the decision seems to be postponed, and the specified roadmap should be corrected by adding information from alternative documents, which, of course, should be done taking into account the opinion of all experts in the field. Since the approved roadmap for the "Industrial Internet of Things" direction does not yet exist, the authors consider it useful to present their position on this issue

The Concept of a Smart Home: Security, Additional Features and Augmented Reality

The concept of a smart home and a smart city recently has often become used as a fashionable and new direction. However, this combination is almost not specified, the various opinions about what does it mean are very different. Sometimes equipping an apartment building with an Internet network, video monitoring or separate waste bins are understood as the implementation of the Smart Home concept. Sometimes energy saving, alternative energy sources, environmental technologies are added here. Although such innovations are useful, they are not identical to the new approach that is expected with the introduction of such terminology, such as the Smart Home. In this paper, the critical features are given, according to the totality of which at home can be classified as smart, also given the classification of technologies used and planned for use. The concept of the Smart Home and Smart City fits into the state program 'Digital Economy of Russia', so it is advisable to consider it in conjunction with the developed technologies of this State Program. Equipping a dwelling with separate useful technical solutions based on digital technologies provides only a quantitative accumulation of amenities. A qualitative breakthrough towards a Smart Home can be made on the basis of the transfer to the control systems of a determining number of functions without loss of reliability, manageability, and individuality of the home. The paper examines technologies that allow providing the full range of tasks in close connection with digital technologies and their sub-technologies, in particular, these related to virtual and augmented reality