Scope AR announced the launch of Remote AR for Microsoft
HoloLens today, marking the first cross-platform live support video
calling solution available for HoloLens. Designed specifically with
enterprise customers in mind, Remote AR is the company’s remote
assistance augmented reality (AR) application and is revolutionizing
real-time, remote collaboration at leading enterprises such as Lockheed
Martin, Siemens and Eaton.
With today’s launch, Remote AR now supports the most effective
hands-free AR device on the market, bringing live remote support with 3D
annotation to the Microsoft HoloLens. With the most sophisticated
spatial tracking available, field technicians can use the Microsoft
HoloLens to connect to a remote expert with an unprecedented clarity of
communication, as well as receive assistance and perform tasks with
unmatched speed and accuracy, since they no longer need to hold a mobile
device.
David Kariuki at Hypergrid Business released an article this week about Apple’s New Phones, and some apps that you should try with their new capabilities.
Remote AR is listed as one of these apps, with David mentioning that
“applications developed with ARKit such as Scope AR are easy to use and
users do not need any training and much time to understand how it works,
which could increase adoption.”
This week in TechTrends’ Construction Executive, Scope AR President David Nedohin explains how AR will impact the design and construction of commercial buildings.
Some highlights:
“The construction industry has quickly become one of the breakout success stories for applications in augmented reality (AR). The construction space is ripe with opportunity to take advantage and be a leader in the adoption of AR.”
“During the construction process, every attempt is made to improve efficiency from saving time, reducing waste and improving safety. With AR-based tools, everyone can be an “expert” by ensuring that they have best practices and expert knowledge in front of them at any stage of the project.”
“Using an AR platform, construction companies can also leverage built-in analytics to capture various data points such as timing information around how long it takes to perform a single step or a procedure overall, as well as checklist verifications, images, videos and measurements.”
Ian Hamilton from Upload VR released an article today on how Remote AR supports ARKit. Here are some highlights:
“Scope AR’s technology is built around augmented reality-based instructions that overlay helpful information, like assembly steps, on a view of the real world, with the goal of helping companies save time and money by letting people learn on the job or be guided quickly and efficiently by off-site experts.”
“We’ve seen demonstrations of Scope AR’s software in an AR headset like HoloLens before, but the tech’s arrival on Apple’s devices opens up hundreds of millions of devices to the technology, potentially multiplying the usage scenarios for Scope AR’s technology.”
“With our technology, any company can use an existing iPhone or iPad to implement AR within their workforces today, allowing workers to complete tasks faster and more accurately, while also producing significant cost and time-savings,” said Scott Montgomerie, CEO of Scope AR, in a prepared statement.
Scope AR announced today that ARKit (Apple’s much anticipated AR development platform) will be supported by Remote AR. ARKit will be available as soon as iOS 11 launches, delivering the most advanced AR functionality yet to devices without AR-specific hardware.
With support for ARKit, Remote AR users can now take
advantage of the platform’s sophisticated real-world mapping to
collaboratively add annotation and 3D content to a much larger area than
has previously been possible on standard devices. This results in a
simple, seamless work session for both sides of the call. The capability
is available on newer iOS devices, including the iPhone 6s and above,
as well as iPads equipped with A9 or A10 processors. You can see a video
with more details on how Remote AR can be leveraged with Apple ARKit here.
Remote AR delivers the ability to save time and money, as
well as improve knowledge transfer and retention by combining AR with
live video streaming, voice, 3D animation, screen sharing, whiteboarding
and world-locked annotations. Doing so simulates the effectiveness of
having an expert on-site guiding a worker step by step on what to do.
Whether a technician needs live support for troubleshooting a problem or
conducting maintenance or assembly procedures, Remote AR empowers them
to get the knowledge they need, when they need it. Remote AR is fully
platform agnostic for use on Android, iOS, Windows and Tango
devices simultaneously, as well as select smartglasses, allowing
organizations to easily experience the benefits of AR by using their
device of choice. All current Remote AR users will have access to the
new ARKit support once iOS 11 is available.
Earlier this month, VR setup released an article on Scope AR’s WorkLink support for Microsoft Hololens. Here are some key points in the article:
With the combination of WorkLink and HoloLens businesses can now
create interactive, holographic training content for staff. As HoloLens
is hands-free users can for example repair a piece of equipment, or
assemble machinery whilst visually being taught at the same time.
WorkLink has been designed so that even non-technical HoloLens users
can build step-by-step content, whether its for training, repairs,
manufacturing or any other applications.
“Enterprise-class instructional content is one of the most impactful
use cases across MR today. By providing a platform for anyone to
customize their content easily for MR integration, Scope AR is making it
easy for users to take advantage of the benefits of mixed reality using
Microsoft HoloLens,” said Brandon Bray from Microsoft.
Lucas Matney from TechCrunch released an article this month on Scope
AR’s WorkLink platform for Hololens, here are some highlights:
It’s important to remember that the augmented reality headset’s
ambitions lie in building a new standard for spatial computing with
enterprise customers.
Today, Alberta-based Scope AR announced that it will be launching a version of its WorkLink augmented
reality content authoring platform on the HoloLens, giving customers
the ability to help remote workers learn to repair or assemble complex
machinery.
The company’s WorkLink product will be able to utilize the HoloLens’
outward facing depth sensors to map a rough mesh of objects and attach
AR step-by-step instructions to the real-world objects with “the same
ease as creating a PowerPoint presentation,” according to the company.
This will allow non-technical employees a chance to easily build content
and push it out to supported platforms, including iOS, Android and
Windows.
Kevin Carbotte from Tom’s Hardware posted an article earlier this
month on Scope AR’s Hololens Support for WorkLink. Here are a few
snippets:
WorkLink works well on handheld mobile devices, and those devices are
basically ubiquitous these days, but now that Microsoft’s Hololens is
starting to pick up momentum, and Microsoft is jumping feet first into
its Window Mixed Reality platform this year, Scope AR is ready to
embrace the Hololens platform.
“Through its built-in depth camera and sophisticated
tracking technology, HoloLens is one of the best wearable devices for
hands-free use of the MR applications so many organizations are
seeking,” said Scott Montgomerie, CEO of Scope AR. “With WorkLink now
supporting the device, enterprises finally have a simple and easy way to
digitize visual instructions at scale — empowering all workers to
become their own expert — and begin to realize the full potential of
MR.”
Montgomerie told us that porting Worklink instructions to Hololens
couldn’t be simpler. Scope AR worked with Microsoft for several months
to ensure that the mobile version and the Hololens version would work
seamlessly together. If you have a workforce with Hololens and
smartphone devices, everyone can use the same instructions to achieve
the same goals. The Hololens users will simply have their hands free to
work while they see the overlay.
“Enterprise-class instructional content is one of the
most impactful use cases across MR today,” said Brandon Bray from
Microsoft. “By providing a platform for anyone to customize their
content easily for MR integration, Scope AR is making it easy for users
to take advantage of the benefits of mixed reality using Microsoft
HoloLens.”
May 11 at Microsoft Build 2017, Scope AR,
the creator of mixed reality (MR) smart instructions and live support
video calling solutions, announced that its MR content authoring
platform, WorkLink, now supports Microsoft HoloLens. Using the smart
instruction creation platform available on HoloLens, users can now
quickly and easily produce highly interactive MR instruction and
training content for deployment on HoloLens, the world’s first, fully
self-contained holographic computer. The integration provides WorkLink
users with a completely hands-free MR experience, an essential step for
remote workers trying to repair a piece of equipment or factory floor
workers assembling complex machinery. New and existing WorkLink projects
can now be immediately published to HoloLens to take advantage of a
fully markerless, hands-free solution!
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