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Cool Augmented Reality App for Fixing Cars
- pmorici 17y agoThis seems like is might be awkward for mechanics who were all ready good at the job.
- lutorm 17y agoIt seems to be aimed at military in-field repairs, though, in which case it probably makes sense.
- jorsh 17y agoeven an experienced mechanic will tell you that you can never have too much reference material knowing how a vehicle mechanically works is one thing, figuring out how a certain manufacturer implemented those mechanical principles is totally another
- lutorm 17y agoSo how do these systems work? Do the goggles have some sort of position measuring devices or do they work through image recognition of what's in the field?
- sailormoon 17y agoIt must be positional; image recognition would seem a little too good to be true. Would be delighted to be contradicted, though!
- jmah 17y agoI've been looking into augmented reality technologies lately; vision systems are getting really good. There are some good ones here (click twice to load Flash videos, or download AVIs): http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~bob/research/research_ptamm.html http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~bob/research/research_ptamm.html
- sailormoon 17y agoThanks for the link. Fascinating stuff, makes me want to quit and go jump into AR.
- callahad 17y agoCan anyone explain the importance of reducing overall head movement?
- drhodes 17y agoMaybe it's a rough indicator of how much looking is required to locate a part. Maybe it reduces the odds of cracking One's head on large metal objects.
- sailormoon 17y agoWith these maintenance tasks seemingly pretty well-defined in terms of movements and actions with 3D objects in a 3D space, it doesn't take much imagination to see a suitably equipped robot could be doing this kind of thing pretty soon.
- RK 17y agoDIY, internet guided surgery here we come. Seriously though, there seems to be some very interesting potential for this type of augmented reality.
- akc 17y agoneato. I did some work in his lab 10 years ago. Back then the AR getup looked something like the Ghostbusters backpack.
- elblanco 17y agoWhat's neat about this is that it essentially takes a skill, and packages it up, and allows anyone who can turn a wrench to do the same job with extremely minimal training. Not enough Marines in the motor pool to fix all the broken trucks? No problem, augment them with some cooks.
- ippisl 17y agoI wonder if with this and some other stuff( for example, diagnostics using car computer) , people could easily fix their car on their own?