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Thursday, January 02, 2014

Linking Wearables and Augmented Reality

The vendor Metaio is speaking and displaying at the upcoming Consumer Electronics show.  The link between wearables and AR is obvious.   Particularly interesting is the mention of maintenance applications, which we explored for manufacturing applications.

" ... With smartwatches and Google Glass projected to sell tens of millions of units in the next few years, 2014 will begin a new era of wearable computing devices, all of which can be enhanced by visualization technology like Augmented Reality. Metaio, the Augmented Reality Company, will deliver live demonstrations with these devices on the exhibition floor at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show.

Metaio will showcase both consumer-focused and enterprise augmented reality apps on the latest wearable computing platforms like the EPSON Moverio and the Vuzix M-100. Among the demonstrations shown will be a 3-D maintenance app for a Mitsubishi Electric HVAC unit; a demo that allows potential car buyers to switch out components on a vehicle; and “Mirage”, the first AR Browser for wearable computing.... " 

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