July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
83 pages
1h 42m
English
Content preview from Augmented Reality for the Industrial Enterprise
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Preface
Industrial augmented reality can make a meaningful difference for workers.
The difference between where it is now and where it will be in 10 years is huge. What can industrial-use augmented reality (AR) do right now? It can help building contractors “see” into walls and know where to lay wiring. How about that AR in 10 years? It could enable the whole crew to walk into a holographic building and virtually lay out wiring, plumbing, lighting, and Wi-Fi systems in real time, checking for problems even before they build.
The first scenario is already in the works. The second is coming faster than you may imagine, and this book can help you get started with your own AR development.
But first, let’s look at the differences between augmented reality and virtual reality (VR).
Augmented or Virtual: Depends On What You Want to Do
In theory, the distinctions between virtual and augmented reality are clear. Virtual reality takes you into the digital world. Augmented reality pulls the digital world into your reality—it weaves digital images onto and into everything.
In practice, it isn’t that simple, and it would take more than a few sentences to explain. Helen Papagiannis, an expert with a PhD in augmented reality, succinctly sums up her view of the differences between AR and VR in “Designing Beyond Screens to Augment the Full Human Sensorium,” if you’d like to read more. For our purposes here, it suffices to say that the new breed of AR systems still relies on VR headsets—like the ...
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