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2. What is the difference between the Oculus Rift and the Microsoft and privacy implications of releasing a product like the
HoloLens? HoloLens?
3. How could this type of technology benefit your collaborations 5. Virtual reality and augmented reality headsets are currently a
as a student? Think about how you interact with tutors and novelty, but that will change over the coming years. How might
fellow students on group projects and how you seek and receive these new innovations affect collaboration and business 10 or
help from your instructor. 20 years from now?
4. Privacy concerns are one of the factors that prompted Google
to delay a full release of the Google Glass. What are the security

Figure 2-21 shows a sample task list containing the name of each task, the name of the per-
son to whom it is assigned, the date it is due, the task’s status, and remarks. Because every member
of the team has edit permission, everyone can contribute to this task list. Google Drive will allow
simultaneous edits. Because Google Drive tracks version history, it will be possible, if necessary, to
learn who made which changes to the task list.
Setting up such a list is easy, and having such a list greatly facilitates project management.
The key for success is to keep it current and to use it to hold team members accountable.

Sharing a Task List Using Microsoft SharePoint

SharePoint includes a built-in content type for managing task lists that provides robust and pow-
erful features. The standard task list can be readily modified to include user-customized columns,
and many different views can be constructed to show the list in different ways for different users.
Like the rest of SharePoint, its task lists are industrial-strength.
Figure 2-22 shows a task list that we used for the production of this text. The first three col-
umns are built-in columns that SharePoint provides. The last column, named Book Title, is the
book for which the task was assigned. For example, UMIS stands for the book titled Using MIS.
When one of our team members opens this site, the view of the task list shown in Figure 2-23 is
displayed. The tasks in this view are sorted by Due Date value and are filtered on the value of Task
Status so any task that has been completed is not shown. Hence, this is a to-do list. Another view of

Figure 2-21
Sample Task List Using Google
Drive
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