Augmented Reality
Superpowers for your workforce - now available.
Where digital and reality meet.
Augmented Reality (AR) is an interactive experience where digital information is overlaid into a real-world environment using a phone, tablet or wearable device. AR allows the user to superimpose digital graphics in the physical space, creating the sense that the digital object truly resides in the user's field of view. An image, object, or an entire facility can be activated in AR with the help of a smart phone or wearable device. With AR you can fit a shipping vessel in your pocket, find directions to the closest muster point in an emergency, and provide heads up information during an assembly process on the manufacturing floor.
How Augmented Reality Activates
Facility Activation
Transform static facilities and showrooms into digital guides and information repositories. Provide essential information where and when it’s needed most to reduce friction and improve efficiency.
Marker Based Experiences
Using a specialized image (AR marker), an AR experience launches when the device’s camera identifies it. Once mapped, the experience launches on top of the marker digitally.
Object Recognition
It’s easy for a human to determine a wrench from a hammer, but machines need to be taught. Use it to quickly identify components for inspections, environmental hazards, or to highlight the next step of a complex procedure.
We learn by doing.
According to the 70-20-10 learning framework, approximately 70% of what we learn and retain is acquired through experiential learning. The remaining 30% is split between peer-to-peer learning and traditional learning styles like courses and classes.
Other Benefits of AR
Decrease New-Hire Ramp-Up Time
The average new employee takes 1-2 years until they reach “optimal productivity”.¹ Virtual guidance through AR can help fast-track information retention.
Improve Safety & Compliance
Step-by-step instructions in AR guides a user through a process to reduce risks to safety, while ensuring consistent performance and results.
Easily Scalable & Cost Effective
Create step-by-step workflows in AR to quickly disseminate updated procedures across your organization. AR experiences could be organization-wide or process-specific.
Wearables not required
Not all AR applications require wearable technology. Mobile and Web AR applications can be deployed using popular smartphones, reducing learning curve and deployment cost.
Higher First-Time Resolution Rates
With AR wearables, field service technicians can be guided through complex procedures, and if they get stuck, a remote expert can be patched in to provide a second set of eyes.
Reduce Knowledge Leakage
When veteran employees retire, their valuable knowledge leaves with them. Capture processes and build a knowledge repository that can be utilized by their replacements.
More Examples of Our Work
Digital Choke Valve
See how Abstract created an interactive AR experience to showcase Master Flo’s
Choke Valve at their Subsea Tieback and Offshore Technology Exhibit.