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Check out apprentice.io The founder initially fell in love with Google Glass and went on to build an AR/VR startup around it. They are life sciences focused,

Check out apprentice.io The founder initially fell in love with Google Glass and went on to build an AR/VR startup around it. They are life sciences focused, but I see no reason it couldn't fit your use case.

bborud 4y ago
Interesting, but I think the device is a bit too bulky and sticks too far out to work in my use case. The environment where we'd use this is essentially a giant machine shop where you have to wear a hard-hat, it is noisy and dirty and you often have to get into tight spaces with cabling and piping everywhere. Besides it doesn't look like they are primarily focused on selling the device itself. For a device to work for us it would either have to be so small it can be worn with a hard hat, and not stick out beyond the helmet and incorporate safety glasses, or it would have to be a lightweight helmet mounted system that can be folded out of the way when not in use so people don't have to change helmets. With a helmet mounted device you could incorporate the camera(s) in the helmet and perhaps even include an IR camera as well. For the stuff we work on on that project, having an IR camera, would actually be of immense help. Both for on-site work (being able to see what temperature different parts of the machine are with some accuracy), for remote observation and for documenting.
- dbspin 4y ago
  Seems like both the Microsoft Hololens 2 and Magic Leap 2 fit your requirements.
- CharlieDigital 4y ago
  Reach out to the team. They are not a device company but a software company that focuses on integrating with AR devices. Angelo, the founder, has a deep passion for VR/AR so I'm sure he'd love to hear your use case. As a bonus: their focus has been on adding evidence capture (documentation, really) in the flow of the process. The primary use case is pharma manufacturing execution systems (e.g. installation, configuration, and validation of a new production line).
  - bborud 4y ago
    Ahh, seems I was a bit too quick.
  - avsteele 4y ago
    They are not interested in selling to anything other than drug/life sciences. See my comment above.
avsteele 4y ago
I just put in a request to talk to them. Got a call back from a sales rep. I explained the my application was remote support of engineers /customers working in on our hardware microscopes (similar to an electron microscope). The sales rep says they are only interested in selling life sciences /drug companies. So I would recommend against anyone contacting them who want to use this for general purpose AR.
- CharlieDigital 4y ago
  Unfortunate! I think you can try their social channels (LinkedIn) and see if there's any interest higher up. Sales folks are probably too narrowly market focused.

bborud 4y ago

Interesting, but I think the device is a bit too bulky and sticks too far out to work in my use case. The environment where we'd use this is essentially a giant machine shop where you have to wear a hard-hat, it is noisy and dirty and you often have to get into tight spaces with cabling and piping everywhere. Besides it doesn't look like they are primarily focused on selling the device itself. For a device to work for us it would either have to be so small it can be worn with a hard hat, and not stick out beyond the helmet and incorporate safety glasses, or it would have to be a lightweight helmet mounted system that can be folded out of the way when not in use so people don't have to change helmets. With a helmet mounted device you could incorporate the camera(s) in the helmet and perhaps even include an IR camera as well. For the stuff we work on on that project, having an IR camera, would actually be of immense help. Both for on-site work (being able to see what temperature different parts of the machine are with some accuracy), for remote observation and for documenting.

dbspin 4y ago
Seems like both the Microsoft Hololens 2 and Magic Leap 2 fit your requirements.
CharlieDigital 4y ago
Reach out to the team. They are not a device company but a software company that focuses on integrating with AR devices. Angelo, the founder, has a deep passion for VR/AR so I'm sure he'd love to hear your use case. As a bonus: their focus has been on adding evidence capture (documentation, really) in the flow of the process. The primary use case is pharma manufacturing execution systems (e.g. installation, configuration, and validation of a new production line).
- bborud 4y ago
  Ahh, seems I was a bit too quick.
- avsteele 4y ago
  They are not interested in selling to anything other than drug/life sciences. See my comment above.

avsteele 4y ago

I just put in a request to talk to them. Got a call back from a sales rep. I explained the my application was remote support of engineers /customers working in on our hardware microscopes (similar to an electron microscope). The sales rep says they are only interested in selling life sciences /drug companies. So I would recommend against anyone contacting them who want to use this for general purpose AR.

CharlieDigital 4y ago
Unfortunate! I think you can try their social channels (LinkedIn) and see if there's any interest higher up. Sales folks are probably too narrowly market focused.