Every failed AR deployment has one thing in common: the requirements were incomplete, unclear, or never written down. The AREA exists to fix that. We bring together enterprises, solution providers, and researchers to build the precise, actionable requirements that make enterprise AR deployable at scale.
AR is not a plug-and-play technology. Deploying it across a factory floor, a logistics operation, or a complex maintenance environment means integrating with existing IT infrastructure, meeting security and compliance standards, managing devices across many users, and ensuring the experience actually works for the people wearing it.
When requirements are vague, projects stall. When they are missing entirely, procurement fails, pilots do not scale, and budgets get wasted.
Getting requirements right means asking the right questions before you buy anything:
These are not theoretical questions. They are the questions that separate a successful deployment from an expensive pilot that never moves forward.
A core part of the AREA’s mission is defining the requirements that enterprises, device manufacturers, and solution providers need to align on.
In 2026, the AREA’s Requirements work is organized around three interconnected efforts:
1. Enterprise-Ready Device Requirements
Building on its AndroidXR and Wearable Device work, the AREA is developing a structured set of enterprise-ready device requirements — covering security, performance, device management, identity and access management, compliance, and interoperability. These requirements are designed to give enterprises a clear benchmark for evaluating devices, and to give device manufacturers a direct line of sight into what enterprise buyers actually need.
This is not a wish list. It is a practical, member-validated specification developed by the people who are deploying AR in production environments today.
2. Structured Use Case and Requirements Management
Through the AREA Statement of Needs (ASON) tool, AREA members and enterprise users have access to a hierarchical, tagged taxonomy of AR use cases and requirements. This is a working tool, not a whitepaper. You use it to scope your project, generate RFP-ready requirements, and collaborate with your supply chain.
3. AndroidXR Enterprise Deployment Challenges
The AREA’s working group on AndroidXR has documented 12 specific barriers to deploying Android-based XR devices in enterprise environments — from MDM limitations to version fragmentation to compliance gaps. Understanding these barriers is the first step to addressing them, either through internal planning or through direct engagement with platform owners.
The ASON tool is the first requirements management platform built specifically for enterprise AR. It gives you a structured library of use cases and requirements you can filter by industry and solution type. Use it to accelerate your project scoping, build your RFP, and collaborate with suppliers. It is free to access.
Who it is for: Enterprise project teams in the early stages of AR scoping, procurement teams building RFPs, solution providers responding to enterprise requirements.
Before you standardize on an AndroidXR-based device, you need to understand what enterprise deployment actually involves. The AREA’s member working group has identified the 12 most significant barriers to enterprise adoption of Android-based XR wearables — from the lack of a unified update process to MDM limitations and compliance gaps. This page documents those barriers and explains what the AREA is doing about them.
Who it is for: IT managers, enterprise architects, XR program leads evaluating AndroidXR wearable devices for large-scale deployment.
The AREA has built a working requirements management tool that lets you explore, filter, and apply enterprise-ready AR device requirements. It is grounded in the AREA’s member-validated research and designed to give procurement teams, IT managers, and project leads a fast starting point. You do not need to start from scratch. The requirements are already there — organized, filterable, and ready to adapt to your context.
Who it is for: Enterprise teams evaluating AR hardware, IT security teams setting device standards, procurement teams building vendor evaluation criteria.
The AR hardware landscape is changing fast. AndroidXR is emerging as a significant platform for wearable devices. New form factors — glasses, headsets, and mixed reality devices — are reaching enterprise-grade capability. AI is being embedded directly into AR experiences.
Each of these shifts creates new requirement gaps. Enterprises that wait for their device manufacturers or solution providers to define requirements for them are setting themselves up to repeat the same deployment failures.
The AREA’s requirements work gives you a head start. It is built by practitioners, validated by member organizations, and designed to reduce the time, cost, and risk of getting AR from pilot to production.
AREA members actively shape the requirements we publish. If your organization is deploying or planning to deploy enterprise AR, your experience belongs in these documents.
Members get early access to requirements frameworks as they are developed, participate directly in working group sessions, and have voting rights over research priorities.
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