Why manufacturing needs augmented reality
January, 30 2019 – Norbert Sparrow: Remember Glass? When Google introduced its augmented reality (AR) eyewear, the initial excitement faded into disdain for early adopters, who earned a memorable nickname: Glassholes. The user affectation, as well as the cost and paucity of reasons to actually use them in nature, doomed AR wearables in the ... Read More
2019: The year AR finally goes from “unsexy” to cool?
December 18, 2018 – Greg Nichols: The AR Cloud, ruggedized hardware, and a consumer-friendly app ecosystem. Could 2019 be the year this technology breaks out of the novelty phase? Augmented Reality is still pretty lame. Sorry, I know that’s a broad brush to paint an increasingly diverse technology category, but that’s my professional opinion. ... Read More
XR Talks: Dos and Don’ts of Enterprise AR
November 30, 2018 – Mike Boland: XR Talks is a weekly series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, as well as narrative analysis and top takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are their own. Enterprise AR is a rich area of opportunity, given continually-proven bottom line impact. In fact, ... Read More
NASA is using HoloLens AR headsets to build its new spacecraft faster
October 9, 2018 – Erin Winick: Lockheed Martin engineers wear the goggles to help them assemble the crew capsule Orion—without having to read thousands of pages of paper instructions. When you work at a factory that pumps out thousands of a single item, like iPhones or shoes, you quickly become an expert in the assembly ... Read More
How to convince your Enterprise to buy into AR
September 19, 2018 – Scott Montgomerie: Almost everyone’s heard something about the promise of augmented reality (AR). Next-generation video game action. The future of interactive movies. Or blockbuster AR investments from heavy-hitters like Facebook, promising a new way that we’ll connect and interact. Is this exciting? Absolutely. But there’s more to AR than hype ... Read More
Tech Trends: Building Spaceships with Mixed Reality
Lockheed Martin’s space division has partnered with Scope AR to support the manufacturing of spacecraft, including NASA’s Orion. On September 14, Alice Bonasio, Tech Trends’ Editor in Chief posted an article to TechTrends exploring Lockheed Martin’s expanding use of Scope AR’s WorkLink, particularly the work done on their Orion project using Scope AR’s WorkLink. Some ... Read More
WSJ: Lockheed Martin Deploys Augmented Reality for Spacecraft Manufacturing
On August 1, in the Wall Street Journal, Sara Castellanos posted an article exploring Lockheed Martin’s use of augmented reality, particularly the work done on their Orion project using Scope AR’s WorkLink. Some highlights from the article: Lockheed Martin Corp.’s space division is using augmented reality headsets and software to speed up the time it ... Read More
A How-to on CAD-less AR
One of the questions we get a lot is “How do we make AR instructions if we don’t have 3D models?”< It’s a valid question. The WorkLink platform was built primarily around the concept that organizations would be leveraging their own products’ CAD models to create augmented reality training and instruction materials. Many of our ... Read More