AGCO Corp Using Augmented Reality in Agriculture
Worth a read is a section on Augmented Reality on the Wall Street Journal’s Morning Download, December 13 2016.
The article mentions AGCO Corp, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, whose factory workers are equipped with AR glasses to improve logging of quality checks (use of the wearables made the checks 20% faster). The firm has plans to use AR technology headsets to guide workers through welding 30-foot booms to chemical sprayers.
The summary draws upon another article, written by Sara Castellanos, which can be read here (for subscribers to WSJ) which sets out research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology predicting that AR has the potential to transform the way workers interact with large amounts of data, specifically in the supply chain.
Context is provided for the global 3-D imaging market, which includes holograms. The market is expected to grow from $4.9 billion in 2015 to $16.6 billion by 2020 (Markets and Markets Research, India).