Republishing Technical Documentation in Augmented Reality
Researchers have proposed a system for automatically republishing technical documentation (user manuals and work instructions) as Augmented Reality content for viewing with AR-enabled devices such as smart glasses.
Peter Mohr et al. presented the paper, “Retargeting Technical Documentation to Augmented Reality” at the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The proposed system effectively permits single sourcing (republishing) of Augmented Reality content from existing work instructions in an automatic manner by transforming CAD models and 2D technical illustrations into 3D virtual objects for overlaying the physical world.
The proposed system adds yet another publishing channel to sets of work instructions (beyond paper and 2D online documentation) and would enable cost savings and economies of scale by reducing the amount of manual work to design and develop stand-alone guided AR scenarios.