THE MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE IN BUSINESS 2021
Grace Hwang
GENERAL MANAGER OF DESIGN AND UX RESEARCH OF MIXED REALITY, MICROSOFT
Grace Hwang leads a cross-disciplinary team at Microsoft that explores what the future of the five- year-old HoloLens mixed-reality project looks like-a glowing, secondary world of holographic objects and people that can appear in an ordinary home or office. This year, the company debuted its “Mesh” platform- a virtual conference room where people can meet not just via HoloLens but also through an Android tablet, iPhone, or Oculus VR headset. Current customers include Accenture and James Cameron’s nonprofit, OceanX.
Right now, it’s about bringing people quite literally to the table. The hope is that then you can imagine different interactions. Maybe it’s about creating that 1:1 intimate conversation with a therapist, and you have to be able to see high-resolution expressions. Or maybe you’re in group counseling, and you have
