Augmented Reality, Hologram-like Images Enter the Workplace
The future of data visualization is unfolding on the factory floor of AGCO Corp., a manufacturer of agricultural equipment. Factory workers in Jackson, Minn., don augmented-reality glasses that display diagrams and images of instructions to help them conduct quality checks on tractors and chemical sprayers. Logging quality checks is up to 20% faster with the use of Google Glass, said Peggy Gulick, director of business-process improvement. Next year, the company, based in Duluth, Ga., will experiment with computer-generated hologram-like images, using the three-dimensional images to help guide workers through the process of welding 30-foot booms to chemical sprayers. ….[READ]
LAVREB Laboratory of Virtual Reality and Economic Behavior 