Lockheed and Boeing Reveal AR Potential in the Enterprise
AREA members Lockheed Martin and Boeing have been mentioned in an article on Business Insider. At the recent VR & AR World event in London, the companies revealed details of how their implementation of AR and VR technologies is helping reduce error rates and reducing engineer training time.
Two main points from the article:
- Lockheed Martin is using VR and AR to significantly decrease the error rate of integrating radar systems for navy ships, a process that’s complex and requires precision; if the integration is off by one-hundredth of an inch, the system won’t work, and correcting these errors is expensive. AR and VR help Lockheed Martin to identify errors early on.
- Boeing plans to cut engineer training time by 75% by using the Microsoft HoloLens to train engineers in recognizing and combining different pieces of equipment, aided by digital text pop-ups and a voiceover providing guidance. Boeing is also using AR and VR for other purposes, including development of space transportation and to speed up maintenance processes.
Both VR and AR engineering markets are worth around $4.7 billion in 2025 and have 3.2 million users, heavily disrupting the CAD software market according to Goldman Sachs. To read the full article on Business Insider click here.