INFINITE DIVERSITY IN INFINITE COMBINATIONS: THE BIRTH OF THE TRUE SMART HOME

Honored to be giving a guest lecture today at the MIT Media Lab titled "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations: The Birth of the True Smart Home" including smart home trends/standards/experiences, the story of Matter, and lessons learned for applying to spatial computing, metaverse applications, and extended reality domains.

ABSTRACT: This lecture covers smart home innovation in three parts:

1. The latest trends in the smart home industry and how the pandemic has changed people's relationships with their homes.

2. The story of how Matter came to be and how it is now poised to make significant progress towards a more seamless and integrated device onboarding experience for users.

3. How Matter is opening the doors of innovation to a bright future of smart connected devices and meaningful experiences that will impact people's homes and lives over the next decade.

Finally, this lecture concludes with lessons learned from smart home industry standardization efforts that are applicable to many diverse innovation and problem solving domains including mixed reality, spatial computing, and metaverse domains.

Full video replay: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations: The Birth of the True Smart Home