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I am eternally surprised that Boeing has not developed augmented reality headsets for its maintenance crew. Overlaying specs and instructions onto the component
by moistly 4y ago
I am eternally surprised that Boeing has not developed augmented reality headsets for its maintenance crew. Overlaying specs and instructions onto the components being serviced would be a godsend for productivity, compliance, and personal safety.
Edit: ditto for automotive assembly/repair. Power plant maintenance. Basically all complicated engineering fields could make excellent use of AR.
- nsriv 4y agoThis is the space that Microsoft's HoloLens and to a much lesser degree the prior Google Glass project stepped into.
- p_l 4y agoBoeing was involved with industrial version of Google Glass, Microsoft is pushing Hololens heavily in that space as well - in fact you can buy Hololens integrated with safety hat - and there's explicit stuff to integrate with MS ERP stuff. Uptake seems to be mainly in high end civil engineering so far, but a lot of those solutions are things you are not going to read about outside a niche press.
- CamperBob2 4y agoI'll never be able to find a reference to it, but I distinctly remember AR goggles being used for aircraft maintenance 10-15 years ago, if not farther back than that. It's a very obvious application, and not a new one at all.
- moistly 4y agoIt cheers me to hear that. It’s such a natural high-value application. I’m surprised I haven’t seen articles about it in my geekspace.