In this one, entitled: “Smart Glasses For Augmented Reality Market Emerging Trends and Technology 2018” some of the key players in terms of enterprise AR smartglasses providers are included, such as DAQRI, Epson Corp., Alphabet Inc., Atheer Inc., Microsoft Corp., and Sony Corp. The report can be accessed here.

Global Smart Glasses For Augmented Reality Market Research Report 2018” tracks the major market events including product launches, technological developments, mergers & acquisitions, and the innovative business strategies opted by key market players. Along with strategically analyzing the key micro markets, the report also focuses on industry-specific drivers, restraints, opportunities and challenges in the Smart Glasses For Augmented Reality Market.

The second one, Global Smartglasses Market Size 2018-2023, includes information about Osterhout Design Group, Microsoft, TESO, Samsung and Baidu glasses.  This  report is said to be a comprehensive study that provides an elite mixture of professional experts related to market scenario.

The report can be accessed here 

The research team has followed global Smartglasses market for a 10 years period beginning in 2013 and ending in 2023. The Smartglasses report considers 2017 is a base year to collect data information by region, company, Smartglasses product type and application. Furthermore, Smartglasses report sheds light on the dominant market players in Europe, North America, Central & South America, Middle East & Africa, China, Japan, India and others.

With In:Range, ScanReach has solved a problem nobody else has. The firm has created a system and technology capable of sending and receiving data signals wirelessly through any structure, including steel. Utilising a combination of advanced radio technology and intelligent software algorithms and protocols, signals sent from bracelets worn by crewmembers are picked up by sensors that simply plug into standard power points. This data is then transmitted to screens on the bridge or, during incidents, to emergency services, land-based facilities or nearby ships.

The result is a real-time overview of the exact location of all personnel, negating the need for lengthy (and often dangerous) searches and ensuring that those that need assistance receive it as quickly as possible.

“InReach is Superman,” states Arild Sæle, CCO, ScanReach. “Plug it in and suddenly you can see through walls to know exactly where your crew are located and how to get to them quickly if they need help. From saving individuals to conducting entire vessel evacuations in a fraction of the usual time, this technology can fundamentally transform safety standards at sea. What’s more its applications are almost limitless.”

Jon Roger Nesje, CEO, says that he expects the offshore, energy and merchant shipping sectors to be the first to seize on the potential of In:Range, but that other sector markets and uses will develop rapidly.

“Cruise for example,” he states. “If passengers were issued with In:Range technology upon boarding then the crew would always be able to find and assist them when required. The system can also be used as a simple, reliable and incredibly powerful platform for wireless data exchange. Equipment that gathers data, such as smart ropes or condition monitoring systems, can use In:Range to transmit data straight to the bridge, giving officers real-time insights and leading to safer, more effective and efficient operations. This can be used as the cornerstone of smart ships – it can empower the shipping industry of tomorrow.”

In:Range has undergone extensive testing and will have completed rigorous pilot tests on a number of vessels, including North Sea Shipping’s North Sea Giant, before its official launch at the end of 2018.

To ensure privacy for those wearing the transmitters, the system’s default setting is ‘sleep’, springing to life in a range of situations, such as when alarms are sounded, the wearer presses a button, or movements are made that show distress. The system is robust, reliable and, despite its advanced nature and artificially intelligent data transmission and capturing capabilities, simple to operate and maintenance free.

One of northern California’s largest health systems is seeing strong success with the enterprise version of the mHealth smartglasses. And officials are crediting that success to what they’re calling “the human ROI.”

“This is not a machine,” Albert Chan, MD, chief of digital patient experience at Sutter Health, says of the high-tech wearable. “It’s a solution to workflow problems.”

And it’s making a world of difference, Chan says, to physicians who generally spend half their time with patients and the other half doing administrative tasks.

The Sacramento-based, 24-hospital, not-for-profit health system is one of the largest networks using Google Glass, with more than 100 physicians sporting the smartglasses in a wide variety of locations. Those devices are embedded with mHealth technology developed by Augmedix, one of a handful of companies designing software for smartglasses.

Among the most popular uses for the smartglasses is in translating patient encounters into the medical record. This is typically done either by the doctors themselves or by scribes, who copy clinician directives – written or taped – into the patient’s record. Chan says Sutter Health now employs about five scribes for every four doctors.

With Google Glass and Augmedix technology, Chan says that process is streamlined – for both the doctor and the scribe – and made more meaningful. The patient visit is entered into the record immediately, with more accuracy, absent the vagaries of a doctor’s handwriting, an imperfect recording or time spent between the visit and data entry.

Recently, Sutter Health and Augmedix announced a collaboration with Google to add artificial intelligence tools, by connecting the smartglasses to the Google Cloud Platform.

“Our work on GCP has been accelerating as we continue to advance our capabilities using Google Cloud machine learning APIs and core HIPAA-secure cloud infrastructure services,” Ian Shakil, co-founder and CEO of Augmedix, said in an announcement released at this year’s HIMSS18 conference in Las Vegas. “As our largest deployment, Sutter represents an at-scale example of what’s possible when you bring together a technology-enabled documentation service for health systems and the power of the cloud.”

Chan, who uses Google Glass in his own family medicine practice, says the wearables aren’t meant to improve clinical outcomes – at least not directly. They’re designed to reduce the stress on clinicians by giving them an intuitive, hands-free means of completing administrative tasks, such as entering data into the patient record, collaborating with the care team and messaging.

“As AI matures, we can layer that into our (administrative) processes to make things more efficient,” he says. “We can understand patterns and anticipate needs.”

Read the full article here.

“This is an exciting step forward in maximising uptime for our customers through the use of augmented reality and remote diagnostic tools,” said Paul Anderson, Service Operations Manager at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. “Our ultimate aim is to ensure we can keep the customers’ vehicles on the road for longer and that means reducing the time it takes to repair a vehicle when it’s in one of our centres.”

Using the state-of-the-art wearable device, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles service technicians will be able to simply clip the head-mounted device onto a safety helmet or bump cap and connect directly with the Technical Support Centre at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles’ Technical Support Centre at the head office in Milton Keynes. Anderson explained that the device was well designed for loud workshop environments, dark and tight areas which require light and hands-free use in rugged environments.

This virtual assistance could significantly reduce service time, as technicians will be supported throughout the diagnosis and repair of the vehicle.

“The RealWear HMT-1^® device is solving one of industry’s major dilemmas by bringing the right information to every frontline worker in real time, reducing downtime and improving productivity,” said Andy Lowery, RealWear’s Co-founder and CEO in a statement. “We will work closely with Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles to ensure a successful pilot and rollout to allow them to give the best support to their customers.”

Anderson continued, “The new devices allow our team of Technical Support Agents to support our network with a virtual visit which is as close as possible to the agent being in the centre. Factors such as time out of the office, speed to booking and travel time are stripped out leaving only the value of having our technical support agents virtually in the Van Centre to support the diagnostic process. There’s clearly an environmental benefit in this approach, too.”

RealWear’s^® purpose-built platform enables experts to send precise visual instructions remotely to Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Van Centres and field technicians.

The HMT-1 device serves as a virtual technical support agent, guiding technicians through complex repairs by augmenting images, wiring diagrams and adding repair suggestions into their view while walking them through the necessary diagnostic steps.

The full press release can be read here.

RealWear’s member profile can be read here.

The software already enables IT managers to monitor and control their network infrastructure. Located in a data centre or IT closet, imVision can remotely show where ports are located and how they are connected back to the main location. However, users can still struggle to physically see the port information or actual connection behind ceiling tiles or walls.  The new AR capabilities in imVision are designed to combat this, speeding up troubleshooting and provisioning.

The infrastructure provider believes that there are many advantages associated with bringing AR to imVision. As part of a recent technology assessment, it collaborated with Joinpad to develop several functional AR prototypes based on use cases that are typically performed during cabling administration tasks. These covered implementation of moves/adds/changes, troubleshooting cabling connectivity, and maintenance work on cabling infrastructure in the ceiling. The prototype applications, which work on mobile devices and smart glasses, enable users to experience the benefits of AR technology first-hand.

Ernie Pickens, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Solutions, CommScope commented on the development:

‘What started as an application for gamers and entertainment has now entered the business world and organisations are beginning to see the value that AR can bring to various industries. Coupling AR with intelligent infrastructure to ‘see’ cables and connections behind walls and in ceilings is just the first of many uses where we believe customers will find value.’

ThingWorx Studio is the AR platform under the ThingWorx portfolio. With ThingWorx Studio, users can leverage the richness of 3D and the insights from IoT to deliver compelling augmented reality experiences that help improve efficiencies, build better products and enable safer, more productive workers. In India, this has been adopted by the following companies

• ARizon Systems, a startup focusing on applications of Augmented Reality in manufacturing. It is an initiative to help the production industry to optimize their performance using the cutting edge technologies in the space of Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• Grind Master Machines is an emerging global player in superfinishing machines manufacturing. They are a pioneer in manufacturing customized metal finishing, deburring & robotic automation machines.

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Corporations worldwide looking to introduce innovative solutions now have an augmented reality-focused CoE as a resource to address corporate pain points. “Since Unity’s inception, our mission has been to democratize development, solve hard problems and enable success. We’re excited to partner with Appearition because the company shares our passion through its dedication to the development of augmented reality solutions,” said Hubert Larenaudie, President APAC, Unity Technologies. “We hope corporations that are tackling issues with digital transformation benefit from the solutions and support from partners like Appearition who are using Unity’s technology to enable the success of enterprises.”

The Unity CoE highlights the enterprise demand and growth of augmented reality solutions and the move towards digital transformation. The partnership is a significant step forward for both companies enabling corporate digital transformation and fostering an ecosystem to encourage knowledge sharing of best practices. “Appearition’s mission is to enable the success of others, a mission that we gladly share with Unity. We pride ourselves on building innovative products to help enterprises succeed,” said Vivek Aiyer, Founder and CEO of Appearition.

“Appearition is delighted to partner with Unity to launch the first-ever Center of Excellence in Australia. With our global presence, we are excited to continue to deliver end-to-end-deployment through the entire business technology lifecycle.”

The full press release can be read here and Appearition’s member profile can be read here.

Butterfly iQ is a personal ultrasound device.  Using Butterfly Tele-Guidance™ technology, an ultrasound expert can remotely guide any user to acquire even the most challenging ultrasound scans, bringing medical expertise to wherever it’s needed most. Only a fraction of the 40 million healthcare workers worldwide have the expertise to capture and interpret ultrasound images. Butterfly Tele-Guidance will expand their reach and facilitate early diagnosis and preventive medicine.

“This is an important step in fulfilling the promise of bringing ultrasound to the millions that do not have access to this essential medical technology,” said founder and serial entrepreneur Dr. Jonathan M. Rothberg. “I set out to democratize ultrasound imaging as I did with DNA sequencing. Two-thirds of the world has no access to medical imaging, and even in the developed world, expense and lack of expertise limit its accessibility. We solved the expense hurdle with the Butterfly iQ, and now with Butterfly Tele-Guidance technology, we are providing a unique approach to solving the expertise shortage.”

Butterfly Network conquered the problem of affordability of ultrasound systems by leveraging semiconductor technology and replacing the piezoelectric crystals with the world’s first commercial Ultrasound-on-a Chip™. Butterfly iQ received FDA clearance for 13 indications, the broadest ever for a single ultrasound probe, making it the only whole-body ultrasound imager. Priced at under $ 2k, the iQ also is the first personal ultrasound device, paving the way for all healthcare professionals to have a window into the body.

The company worked in collaboration with Google to build its Remote AR application for all ARCore-compatible devices, which includes over 100 million Android smartphones. In doing so, enterprises can now more easily use AR to empower real-time, remote collaboration among its workforce across a wide array of devices already in use in the office, factory floor or out in the field.

With newly added support for ARCore, Remote AR is one of the most platform agnostic AR tools on the market available for use on Android, iOS and Windows devices simultaneously, as well as select smartglasses and wearables, allowing organizations to easily experience the benefits of AR by using their device of choice.

“Augmented reality is continuing to gain interest within enterprise organizations across a variety of applications as a result of its unique ability to deliver on-demand knowledge sharing between a remote user and expert,” said Scott Montgomerie, CEO and co-founder of Scope AR. “Our support for ARCore demonstrates our commitment to support the most advanced technology available for Remote AR so our customers have the best experience possible on devices being deployed in the workforce today.”

Remote AR delivers the ability to save time and money, as well as improve knowledge transfer and retention by combining AR with live video streaming, voice, 3D animation, screen sharing, whiteboarding and world-locked annotations. Doing so simulates the effectiveness of having an expert on-site guiding a worker step-by-step on what to do.

Read the full press release here.

Read Scope AR’s member profile here.

XenoHolographic’s AR platform provides sports teams, venues, and brands with the capability to create AR fan engagement in addition to leveraging AI for analysis of consumer behaviour in real time. The organisation was recently named the exclusive AR and AI mobile app platform for Aurora Games, a multi-esports, all-women’s international competition created by Jerry Solomon, sports management icon. The Aurora Games Mobile App features 3D content managed in the XenoCloud with real-time event score tracking, livestreaming capability, and gives fans ability to collect AR holographic content, available to trade as ‘Trading AR Collectibles’ implemented with XenoHolographic’s proprietary Blockchain platform.

Kevin Patrick, Senior Vice President of XenoHolographic, is quoted to have said that the company’s AR tech platform provides ‘one of the most advanced content management and distribution solutions of holographic mobile experiences for real time measured engagement’, and that their partnership with SportTechie will enable introduction of fan engagement solutions to well-known sports teams, brands, and venues.

Jim Capuano, Global Head of Partnerships at SportTechie, is also quoted to have said that the organisation is proud to partner with XenoHolographic and is excited to implement their AR and AI solutions this year.

As part of the collaboration, SportTechie will deliver consulting, referral, and marketing services to their partner. XenoHolographic will also sponsor a large variety of SportTechie’s content subscription platforms.