Economist Features Four AREA Members

The Economist recently featured a round up of different Augmented Reality use cases about smart glasses and wearables in the workplace entitled “Here’s looking at you.” This summary includes four AREA members: Newport News Shipbuilding, Atheer, JoinPad and DAQRI.

The article states that while consumers may not be ready for odd-looking wearables, the workplace is already embracing them.

Schneider Electric is featured because their workers can spend up to half their work time searching for technical data in software, databases, activity logs and through paper records. Schneider Electric is testing Augmented Reality systems that make that same information appear via wearables in a fraction of the time: research suggests time taken for search is reduced to a tenth, meaning immense productivity and efficiency savings.

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The article further describes enterprise examples from the following providers and enterprise applications, and includes a number of AREA members:

• Siemens, a German engineering company, is using technology by AREA member JoinPad to help with various tasks such as the prevention of hazardous and costly oil fires in high-voltage transformers, where they have typically experienced 20% productivity gains.
• Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia, where 200 workers currently use Augmented Reality on tablets, is rolling out AR during construction of an aircraft carrier and half-a-dozen submarines for the US Navy. They plan to use smart helmets in the future.
• Atheer, another AREA member, is distributing Air Smart Glasses to industrial users within a few months with headset prices “getting keener.”
• The DAQRI Smart Helmet is being used at KSP Steel in Kazakhstan.

Member profiles can be read here.

Other providers mentioned in the article include Hololens, Vuzix and Augmedix.

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