The internet-of-things (IoT) refers to the growing number of embedded interconnected devices within everyday ubiquitous objects and environments, especially their networks, edge controllers, data gathering and management, sharing, and contextual analysis capabilities. However, the IoT suffers from inherent limitations in terms of human-computer interaction. In this landscape, there is a need for interfaces that have the potential to translate the IoT more solidly into the foreground of everyday smart environments, where its users are multimodal, multifaceted, and where new forms of presentation, adaptation, and immersion are essential. This work highlights the synergetic opportunities for both IoT and XR to converge toward hybrid XR objects with strong real-world connectivity, and IoT objects with rich XR interfaces. The paper contributes i) an understanding of this multi-disciplinary domain XR-IoT (XRI); ii) a theoretical perspective on how to design XRI agents based on the literature; iii) a system design architectural framework for XRI smart environment development; and iv) an early discussion of this process. It is hoped that this research enables future researchers in both communities to better understand and deploy hybrid smart XRI environments.

翻译：物联网（IoT）指日益增长的嵌入式互连设备，这些设备嵌入日常普适对象与环境之中，尤其涉及它们的网络、边缘控制器、数据采集与管理、共享以及上下文分析能力。然而，物联网在人机交互方面存在固有局限性。在此背景下，亟需能够更切实地将物联网融入日常智能环境前台的接口，这些环境中的用户具有多模态、多面性特征，且新型的呈现、自适应与沉浸方式至关重要。本文凸显了物联网与扩展现实（XR）之间协同融合的机遇，从而形成具备强大现实世界连接性的混合XR对象，以及拥有丰富XR接口的物联网对象。本文贡献包括：i）对这一跨学科领域——XR-IoT（XRI）的理解；ii）基于文献的XRI智能体设计理论视角；iii）面向XRI智能环境开发的系统设计架构框架；iv）对该流程的初步探讨。期望本研究能使两个领域的未来研究者更好地理解和部署混合智能XRI环境。