Research Committee

Chairs

Christine Perey
PEREY Research & Consulting

Samuel Neblett
Boeing

Recent Publications

• Adoption of Real-Time AR Assisted Inspections for Quality & Compliance
• Deployment of Wearable AR in Highly Secure Corporate Environments
• Effectiveness Evaluation of AR for Work Instruction
• 3D Mapping Solutions for Enterprise AR
• AREA 5G and AR Research

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The Research Committee goal is to conduct an advocacy research program to continually advance AR technologies to the benefit of the AREA members and the wider AR ecosystem. The committee’s management of AREA-driven research projects, includes:

1. Monitoring and sharing developments in the enterprise AR research community with members,
2. Managing AREA-driven research projects focusing on topics the AREA members consider highest in priority, and
3. Gathering and amplifying AREA member concerns and requirements to relevant research communities.

Current Activities

The Research Committee seeks to ensure that AREA members and the enterprise AR community are aware of and understand the relevance of the latest developments in research that could impact their projects now or in the future.

• AREA Research Webinar Series
  Our webinars are usually based on a peer-reviewed publication that can be a starting point for partnerships with academia or internal development projects. Recent webinars presented by the Research Committee include:
  
  • XaiR: An XR Platform that Integrates Large Language Models with the Physical World
  • Splat, Track & Map 3D Gaussians for Dense RGB-D SLAM
• Enterprise AR Interoperability Requirements Project
  Before enterprise AR interoperability standards can be evaluated for their fit, or developed to align with enterprise needs, the requirements must be clearly described. To contribute to this project, please contact Christine Perey.
• The 14th AREA-directed Research Project
  The topic of the project is “Barriers to and Drivers of Low-code and No-code AR Solution Benchmarking.” It is almost complete. The RFP has been drafted and published. All members who have experience with any low-code/no-code solutions, please contact Christine Perey.
• The 15th AREA-directed Research Project
  The topic of the project is “Comparison of Visual Positioning Systems and Spatial Anchors.” It is currently in progress. It identifies commercial and open source Visual Positioning Services that create an index of visual features in a space,  and studies, compares, and contrasts several platforms for indoor enterprise AR use cases.
• 2024 Junior Faculty Research Award
  The AREA sponsored part of the Ralph Powe Junior Faculty Award Program with $5K, which was matched by the winning universities. The winners were Molly Zimmerman, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Bill Bui, Wichita State University. Applications are being accepted for the 2025 award.
• The FindAR Search Engine (update to the 8th AREA-directed Research Project)
  FindAR dataset is up to date and can be found here. There is a need for more people to test before we start to promote wider. The Research Agenda 2nd Edition project is on hold until the completion of the FindAR project updates.
• 2025 Research Committee Deliverables
  The proposed Research Committee deliverables spreadsheet is on Causeway for members to review and feedback.The Committee expects to deliver by February 20.

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