Augumenta Introduces Gesture-Based Machine Control for Industrial Applications
A press release by Augumenta Ltd about a new gesture-based machine control smart panel, was released June 1 2016, to coincide with the Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, CA, where the company is demonstrating with other Augmented Reality providers.
Augumenta has introduced a new Augmented Reality interface combining hand-gesture control with virtual display panels, which provides human-machine interaction for industrial applications. The SmartPanel allows users with smartglasses to see information and use hand gestures to operate machine controls on a panel that appears as a blank surface to other people.
The Augumenta SmartPanel provides enterprise customers a high level of customization that is completely configurable in software. Privacy and security are key: only an authorized smartglass user can view panel data and controls. Access to data is dependent on the user’s role. There are potentially wide and diverse industrial applications of the software.
Augumenta have been demonstrating the software at AWE 2016 with ODG, with whom they have collaborated to accelerate AR deployments. The applications will be ideal for field workers due to being head mounted, tether free and lightweight.
Augumenta are working with in-house and external developers to design and integrate custom panel interfaces for varied use cases in enterprise and industrial applications, which they hope will eventually lead to consumer adoption.
Other demonstrations by Augumenta include demos of their field service knowledge-sharing solution developed with the Augumenta SDK, with AREA member 3D Studio Blomberg.
Augumenta Interaction Platform SDK is also being demonstrated with Epson on Moverio BT-300 smartglasses. The Software Development Kit (SDK) is the only developer toolkit to allow integration of both gesture control and smart surfaces that appear on the palm of the user’s hands.