Understanding Virtual Reality

APPENDIX C

Boeing Wire Bundles, An Augmented Reality Application

In the area of manufacturing, the Virtual Systems Research and Technology group at Boeing Computer Services is exploring augmented reality (AR) as an aid in assembling wiring bundles for aircraft. Making wire bundles is a difficult, tedious task and is different for each individual aircraft. Boeing performed this research in collaboration with CMU, Honeywell, and Virtual Vision, Inc. under a 3-year DARPA TRP project titled “Wearable Computer Systems with Transparent, Head-Mounted Displays,” begun in August 1994. In August of 1997, the project culminated in a field study testing the new paradigm with wire shop workers (FIGURE C-1).

FIGURE C-1 Adam Janin demonstrating the 1993 ...