Preparing for an Augmented Future: Homework

In my webinar I stated that for AR to be successful it needs to be useful and make it easier to do things than the way we do it today. The path for long term adoption of AR is through the creation of enterprise level applications that justify the investment by businesses (increased safety, improved efficiencies, reduced training, etc…). So what I would like you to do is to come up with an application of AR within a work environment.

To help you along I have a couple steps:

First, there are a lot of jobs and types of work, so to narrow things down I suggest that you think about what you wanted to be when you were 12 years old, a doctor, a firefighter, a pilot, a baker, etc.

Next, think about the tasks someone would do in this role. How does someone in this role perform the task, what are the various physical and cognitive activities they complete?

Lastly, once you have an understanding of the activity, identity opportunities where having virtual information, or objects can help with the task.

Now you can start to build your AR system.

• How is the virtual information displayed?
• What is tracked (person, object) and how?
• How will the user interact with the virtual information or object(s).

I encourage you to post your ideas below so that we can share our thoughts.  I look forward to seeing what you come up with.