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> A million jobs are begging for HUDS that guide the worker [..] I have a pretty dull, comfortable desk job and lack the imagination to come up with any. Can

> A million jobs are begging for HUDS that guide the worker [..] I have a pretty dull, comfortable desk job and lack the imagination to come up with any. Can you name some? (I've been wrong before when I was skeptical when everyone was hyped about iPad, Deep Learning, etc. so please convince me about Apple Vision, Mark's metaverse, or google's glasses and paint what might be in 5 years.)

proamdev123 3y ago
Here’s one: a warehouse worker with HUD that guides picking and/or packing visually. The HUD could overlay SKU, product description, weight, volume, etc — directly onto the actual item in the storage rack.
sheepscreek 3y ago
Oil drill worker. Industrial worker on the factory floor. A car mechanic. A surgeon… Even an artist (make a sketch, blow it up a 100x using AR on a wall, trace paint to keep proportions right - heck the artist doesn’t even need to do it themselves, they could hire an associate to do it).
mecsred 3y ago
This is something I've worked on so I can comment a bit. The most popular use case I've seen so far is AR manuals, with the sell that you can have technicians up to speed on a piece of equipment without needing human coaching or training. I was shown a demo in the context of robotics recently where you look at a robot and explanations of signals in the wiring harness were shown, hydraulic connections, wear parts, etc. It was visually pretty impressive but quite telling that the two most interested people were my manager and the CEO. The engineers just kinda sat looking at each other with a non verbal "Must have been a fun project to build huh? I'll stick to PDFs".
- rcxdude 3y ago
  given the general state of most documentation, I really struggle to imagine who would actually maintain manuals like this.
spookie 3y ago
The US military has researched on using it for vehicle mechanical repairs. This way a soldier without such knowledge would be able to perform on field repairs. For 3D artists it presents as a more intuitive way to sculpt models. For automotive designers, it allows a cheaper and faster means of iteration, given that such a task requires a much better sense of scale than the one given off of a monitor. Same goes for architecture, which when coupled with a game engine, also allows the customer to preview their future house. (props for being open to ideas btw)
JimtheCoder 3y ago
"I have a pretty dull, comfortable desk job and lack the imagination to come up with any. Can you name some?" Security guard at the mall, Power Rangers, etc...
vmladenov 3y ago
Work: A 3D room-scale representation of GDB would help me keep a lot more of a program’s state in my head. Fun: I want a HUD for skiing that marks where my friends are and warns me of rocks / cliffs / incoming weather.

proamdev123 3y ago

Here’s one: a warehouse worker with HUD that guides picking and/or packing visually. The HUD could overlay SKU, product description, weight, volume, etc — directly onto the actual item in the storage rack.

sheepscreek 3y ago

Oil drill worker. Industrial worker on the factory floor. A car mechanic. A surgeon… Even an artist (make a sketch, blow it up a 100x using AR on a wall, trace paint to keep proportions right - heck the artist doesn’t even need to do it themselves, they could hire an associate to do it).

mecsred 3y ago

This is something I've worked on so I can comment a bit. The most popular use case I've seen so far is AR manuals, with the sell that you can have technicians up to speed on a piece of equipment without needing human coaching or training. I was shown a demo in the context of robotics recently where you look at a robot and explanations of signals in the wiring harness were shown, hydraulic connections, wear parts, etc. It was visually pretty impressive but quite telling that the two most interested people were my manager and the CEO. The engineers just kinda sat looking at each other with a non verbal "Must have been a fun project to build huh? I'll stick to PDFs".

rcxdude 3y ago
given the general state of most documentation, I really struggle to imagine who would actually maintain manuals like this.

spookie 3y ago

The US military has researched on using it for vehicle mechanical repairs. This way a soldier without such knowledge would be able to perform on field repairs. For 3D artists it presents as a more intuitive way to sculpt models. For automotive designers, it allows a cheaper and faster means of iteration, given that such a task requires a much better sense of scale than the one given off of a monitor. Same goes for architecture, which when coupled with a game engine, also allows the customer to preview their future house. (props for being open to ideas btw)

JimtheCoder 3y ago

"I have a pretty dull, comfortable desk job and lack the imagination to come up with any. Can you name some?" Security guard at the mall, Power Rangers, etc...

vmladenov 3y ago

Work: A 3D room-scale representation of GDB would help me keep a lot more of a program’s state in my head. Fun: I want a HUD for skiing that marks where my friends are and warns me of rocks / cliffs / incoming weather.