The ABOM P3 Goggle design integrates display technology that feature stereoscopic dual displays with ultra-high brightness output with adjustable control and 1080p output. The P3 AR solution features 3D spatial mapping and tracking, extremely accurate tracking of orientation, velocity and positioning using IMU/GPS-GNSS/INS capability. ABOM also introduces the first augmented reality display solution optimized with Military Ballistics rated Lens (MIL-PRF 32432A) to the MCEP compliance meeting many challenging elements of the US ARMY’s IVAS specification (HUD 3.0). ABOM P3 features also include advanced thermal image sensors, advanced image and visual processing, and extremely accurate tracking capability of orientation, velocity and positioning using embedded GPS/GNSS/INS receiver technology. Embedded within the Goggle Chassis is an ultra-high performance Depth Camera supported by two Infrared (IR) cameras optimized for low-light conditions up to 10 meters. ABOM P3 AR goggle is field-use ready and designed for extreme environmental durability and cold-weather climate conditions where demanding ruggedized performance is critical. The P3 for Industrial applications also meets ANSI Z87.1+ high mass impact rating and IP-55 Ingress Protection for water and dust protection, which opens the door for supporting the National Safety Council technology initiatives and requirements for meeting extreme IP-67 rating compliance.

“ABOM P3 AR goggle solution is a purpose-built Augmented Reality eyewear system that incorporates ABOM’s patented ultra-low power thin-film technology, making it impossible for fog to survive on the inner surface of the eyewear,” said Kyle Cherry, CEO of VX Inc.

“ABOM’s award-winning heated goggle technology, now Military approved, has made integration and optimization with immersive, augmented reality display technology the perfect solution for highly ruggedized extreme use-cases that exceed industry standards for both quality and performance.

ABOM’s development partner for the P3 Goggle, VX Inc., has pushed the limits of mechanical and electrical engineering design performance,” said Jack Cornelius, ABOM CEO. “We are thrilled to have achieved this level of advanced embedded electronics and application integration based on ABOM’s goggle form factor requirement and ABOM’s goal to meet the majority of the challenging US ARMY IVAS HUD 3.0 specification.

This new level of advanced AR design and integration brings a vast amount of exciting new functionality, capability and applications for safety, industrial and military markets.

THE ABOM P3 will be demonstrated at AUGMENTED WORLD EXPO (AWE) 2019, SANTA CLARA, CA, BOOTH #814

AREA member, Atheer Inc, announced during the Augmented World Expo 2019 conference, the availability of new capabilities in its leading AR Management Platform designed to support warranty approval and management processes.

Warranty approval and management processes play a crucial role in many industries but none more so that in the automotive and equipment manufacturing sectors. As these sectors release increasingly complex products at an accelerating velocity, effective warranty approval and management is a major source of cost savings, but also be the source of improved brand integrity, customer experience and loyalty.

“Warranty approval and management is an enormous issue, and cost, for the automotive industry. Automotive manufacturers can spend huge amounts of money annually in warranty costs. If you can reduce that amount by even 1 percent, you are saving millions of dollars across the value chain,” said Salim Murr, who formerly led, in succession, the Technical Service Department, the Warranties Department and the Logistics Department at BMW North America. Salim, who is also a newly-appointed advisor to Atheer, suggested that Augmented Reality can provide a way for the industry to tackle this vital issue.

“By processing warranty claims faster and with more accuracy, dealers can get their customers back into their cars faster while improving their operating margins and manufacturers can achieve significant cost savings in terms of processing costs and inaccurate claims,” he added. “By augmenting the warranty approval and management workflow with inspections, contextual information and real time collaboration Atheer has the power to radically transform this critical aspect of the automotive industry.”

“Our mission is to augment the core business processes of industrial enterprises. The automotive and manufacturing customers that we work with told us that, as the complexity and number of their products has increased, they face challenges with their warranty approval and management processes” said Atheer CEO Amar Dhaliwal. “With the latest release of the Atheer AR platform, warranty approval and management is now a supported use case. The potential for improved efficiency, cost savings, and a better customer experience is very significant. We’re looking forward to debuting this exciting new capability at AWE.”

This makes XTAL the most advanced mixed reality (MR) system ever created, and the only enterprise-grade MR system capable of total immersion.

Weighing in at only 42 grams, VRgineers’ new augmented reality module features high-quality camera sensors with wide lenses for a natural and immersive field-of-view, and adds hand tracking, inside out tracking, and virtual and augmented reality switching to XTAL’s broad list of capabilities.

The first market segments to benefit from the new AR module, are automotive and aerospace. “The fascinating thing is that we are building the software system that allows you to combine the best functions and capabilities of AR with the VR world,” said Marek Polcak, VRgineers Co-Founder. “With our new module and SDK, AR and VR developers will be able to flawlessly combine real physical objects, including their own hands, with virtual reality.”

Currently, XTAL utilizes state-of-the-art LEAP Motion tracking that allows customers to utilize gesture control and hand tracking in their VR applications. VRgineers’ new module maintains the benefits afforded by the LEAP Motion system for purely VR applications, but expands upon those features for mixed reality applications by combining elements of the physical and virtual world into an immersive, natural experience. With VRgineers’ new AR module, XTAL users will be able to experience natural hands-on interaction with real-world things, like fighter jet cockpits or vehicle dashboard prototypes, while a realistic virtual world is created around them and the physical objects.

One of the most unique features afforded by the new AR module prototype for XTAL is inside out tracking, which is a method of positional tracking commonly used in virtual reality technologies, specifically for tracking the position of head-mounted displays (HMDs) and motion controller accessories. It differentiates itself from outside-in tracking by the location of the cameras and other sensors that are used to determine objects’ positions in space. With inside-out positional tracking, the sensors are located on the device being tracked, whereas outside-in tracking places the sensors at stationary external locations.

The Boulder, Colorado-based Company is launching its Fusion AR with WorkLogic product this week at the 10^th Annual Augmented World Expo (AWE), being held May 29-31 at the Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.

Through an augmented reality interface, Fusion AR provides quick access to IoT enabled equipment information and immediate guidance to address operational issue resolution. WorkLogic is an open API component working within Fusion AR to deliver digital work instructions and checklists to smart headsets, tablets, and smartphones. It allows for improved productivity by giving remote technicians step-by-step instructions, troubleshooting decision trees, and hands-free control.

“We are excited to introduce Fusion AR with WorkLogic into our lineup of products that are designed to help companies be more productive, agile, and compliant. Our customers now have access to customizable AR applications and solutions that will make their engineering and technician team more effective with instant training,” said Rafael Gutierrez, chief executive officer of Jujotech.

Fusion AR with WorkLogic, in conjunction with Jujotech’s Fusion Remote, give connected workers a complete set of just-in-time actionable digital applications. Rich media content may be triggered by Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) analytics, or by image target recognition in the field.

Jujotech introduced Fusion Remote last year as a remote assist solution compatible with Microsoft Skype for Business on smart headsets. In industrial settings, the combination of Fusion AR and Fusion Remote, with the instructional workflow processes of WorkLogic, allows for seamless collaboration between technicians in the field and experts in other locations.

RealWear (AREA Member) a leading manufacturer of wearable technology for industrial settings, is adopting Jujotech applications for its products, including HMT-1Z1, the first ruggedized head-mounted wearable Android-class tablet computer that frees a worker’s hands for dangerous jobs.

“We are thrilled to partner with Jujotech on this solution as they will be a key partner as we scale HMT-and HMT-1Z1 in the industrial world. Innovative solutions like these will allow our partners to further refine critical KPIs to solve real world problems as we focus collectively on the next generation or computing focused on productivity and safety in the field and factory,” said Brian Hamilton, RealWear Cofounder and Chief Business Officer.

“Collectively we are defining the next generation of computing and it is critical to have innovative solutions which focus on solving real world problems and further refine customer KPIs as we embark on this next evolution of increased productivity and safety in the field and factory driven at the edge,” he added.

For more information about Jujotech, WorkLogic, and its full suite of mixed reality applications and solutions, stop by Booth #925 at AWE USA 2019 or visit Jujotech.com.

Hybrid rendering combines on-device processing for local XR interaction with remote edge, or cloud-based GPU rendering for highly detailed visualization of complex 3D models and massive LIDAR point clouds widely used in industries such as AEC, Energy, Manufacturing, Engineering, Mining and Utilities.

The advent of 5G and low latency wireless networks enables new multi-user augmented and mixed reality experiences on untethered XR viewers and headsets. Using Arvizio’s MR Studio platform, 3D models with hundreds of millions of polygons and point clouds with billions of points may be processed on high performance CPUs and GPUs located at the edge or in the cloud and streamed into XR headset devices.

Consolidation of hybrid rendering and integration of IoT data creates digital twins that allow Microsoft HoloLens, Magic Leap and mobile AR device users to view and interact with a 3D model of a building, complex machinery, LiDAR scan or 3D CAD models with associated real-time IoT data to accurately monitor operating conditions.

The newly announced Arvizio IoT Gateway feature connects the MR Studio platform to multiple IoT frameworks allowing telemetry and sensor data to be displayed within the XR experience. The convergence of streamed, hybrid-rendered, large scale 3D models and real-time IoT data allows real world assets to be visualized at scale and augmented with real-time sensor data.

“The combination of hybrid edge rendering, IoT data integration and XR digital twins will revolutionize many enterprise experiences,” said Jonathan Reeves, Arvizio’s CEO. “We are excited to introduce our new hybrid rendering platform for large scale model visualization and the incorporation of real-time sensor data that can be associated with 3D models provides our customers with seamless and highly functional XR experiences.”

Arvizio’s new member profile

Effective augmented reality applications can be straightforward to conceptualize, create, and implement. With modern authoring tools, developers can create immersive AR experiences. Likewise, easy-to-implement remote expert applications can have tremendous impact on maintenance and field service operations. However, these basic applications only represent a small step towards the transformational potential of industrial AR.

We can envision a future in which AR is used to orchestrate the operations of a manufacturing plant. With access to MES, EAM, and other manufacturing software applications, a connected, persona-based AR solution will contextualize and provide relevant information to the workforce on the plant floor.

Each operator’s, technician’s, and engineer’s augmented experience will be tailored to fit their role and continuously adjust to complement his or her level of knowledge.

Executing tasks will become harmonized and individuals will be able to focus their decisions on how best to achieve immediate goals. The AR market has reached a tipping point where even incremental changes in hardware technology can enable large expansions of addressable industrial applications.

The following is taken from a summary of a briefing with ARC Advisory Group, in which Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) shared several of its archetypal customer use-cases in the emerging augmented reality (AR) space.

The progress and future potential of the technology and some general AR-related trends include:

Software: AR solutions are becoming feasible to build and implement as organizations embrace digital strategies across their enterprises.

Hardware: AR hardware is maturing rapidly and by pairing with a holistic AR software platform is increasing the breadth of practical AR applications and rate of adoption.

Applications: AR adoption is finding good traction across both discrete and process industries with engineering, manufacturing, maintenance, and field service applications.

Effective augmented reality applications can be straightforward to conceptualize, create, and implement.  With modern authoring tools, developers can create immersive AR experiences.  Likewise, easy-to-implement remote expert applications can have tremendous impact on maintenance and field service operations.  However, these basic applications only represent a small step towards the transformational potential of industrial AR.

We can envision a future in which AR is used to orchestrate the operations of a manufacturing plant.  With access to MES, EAM, and other manufacturing software applications, a connected, persona-based AR solution will contextualize and provide relevant information to the workforce on the plant floor.  Each operator’s, technician’s, and engineer’s augmented experience will be tailored to fit their role and continuously adjust to complement his or her level of knowledge.  Executing tasks will become harmonized and individuals will be able to focus their decisions on how best to achieve immediate goals.

Source articles: Plant Services.com

ARC Advisory Group website.

They will partner to develop solutions that enable digital factory floor and laboratory workers to access important documents and just-in-time content at the point of need.

Currently, deskless workers such as manufacturing operators and lab technicians are accessing materials that are >80% paper-based and may not be current or compliant. Workers also face increasing product and process complexity, making it difficult to access and apply approved procedures when performing critical tasks.

The partnership will transform Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)s and work instructions into just-in-time resources that are presented with clear language and visuals in a step-by-step format. The Proceedix platform will extend the document management (DMS) capabilities of Sparta’s TrackWise Digital solution directly to the laboratory, shop floor, or anywhere in the supply chain where professionals work away from their desks, making the most up-to-date procedures accessible to workers.

Find out more about the partnership betwen Proceedix and Sparta Systems in the press release here.

Known within JULABO as LucaVision, the solution combines AR smartglasses with Atheer’s award-winning AR management platform to provide a comprehensive way to improve the way its field service team works – and speed up the already-impressive service resolution times JULABO is able to offer its growing base of customers.

The name of this initiative is inspired by JULABO USA mascot Luca – and seems fitting as frogs can see in all directions, nearly 360 degrees, resulting in a larger field of view than is humanly possible. AR offers the same kind of promise.

“We have a tremendous opportunity to bring augmented reality to the temperature control industry in a way that directly impacts quality and service,” said JULABO USA’s President Ralph Juchheim. “These smart glasses and software will transform our service department but, more importantly, the technology will make a significant difference and decrease downtime for our customers.”

Atheer is an international provider of AR enterprise software with a track record of providing its AR platform to major enterprises such as Porsche Cars North America and the International Air Transport Association to improve the productivity, speed and safety of their workforces.

“We are delighted and honored to be working with JULABO USA to roll out this AR field service initiative,” said Atheer CEO Amar Dhaliwal. “JULABO is a world leader in high-performance and reliable temperature control. It’s completely unsurprising that their commitment to innovation extends to constantly seeking ways to improve their customers’ experience.”

The AR field service capabilities of the platform include:

• Hands-free access to technical information, guides and diagrams (technicians and service teams can access information through head movements, hand gestures and voice commands)
• Remote viewing and troubleshooting – the ability to service repair partners and diagnose and repair issues more quickly to reduce application downtimes
• Hyper-vision that allows technicians to zoom in, magnify and see parts more clearly, enhancing what can be detected with the human eye

JULABO is using the Atheer-based platform to:

• Train internal and external service teams
• Assist in the repair and service of instrumentation
• Improve quality and customer assurance through checklists and automated review of orders and repairs

ThinkReality combines an Android-based headset with 1080p (per eye) visuals with an ecosystem that integrates with existing enterprise systems, is compatible with existing augmented reality content, and offers deep user and device management software.

Although virtual reality and the hardware behind it have achieved greater growth than AR over the past few years, many of those who operate at the heart of it see augmented reality as having similar, or even grander potential. However, unlike such headsets as the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, AR is finding its greatest acceptance in the workplace, and Lenovo’s new ThinkReality A6 headset looks to expand that audience and even crib a few customers from Microsoft in the process.

It’s being targeted specifically at enterprise users, with Lenovo citing industrial training and manufacturing as particular areas where it can be of use. It’s said to offer real advantages when it comes to increasing the efficiency of certain tasks and even improving safety. It’s also said to be an excellent tool for architects and artists who want to see a 3D rendering of their potential creations before they have actually been built.

Find out details on the specification and other details on DigitalTrends.

Writing a Request for Proposal (RFP) can be tough – especially when you are seeking proposals on a new technology that you haven’t worked with before.

Recognizing this challenge, Atheer has designed – and made publicly available – a new RFP template designed specifically to help enterprises that have identified a need for an Augmented Reality platform to improve the productivity, effectiveness, accuracy and safety of their work forces, customers, and supply chains.

The template is designed to ask many of the key questions your organization is likely to need answers for when developing a plan to procure and implement an AR solution. It is made available in Microsoft Word format so that it can be easily customized for your enterprise.

Please see the Atheer Blog to download your copy.