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"Augmented Reality" For the Assembly Line
silkySlim writes "EETimes has a short article about a combination data goggles and earpiece device to replace big manuals and reduce training time for assembly line workers. 'In one possible scenario, a technician with data goggles bends over the engine block of a luxury car and removes the covering. He is receiving instructions through an ear piece telling him what to do next while his data goggles mark the screws and bolts on which he must next place his tool.' Apparently, it's already in use by several automotive companies. There's some additional papers also available."
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Now if only these came with a bedroom module then maybe I'd know what to do when I found a girl in my bed.
I would be interested to see what in the way of technical writing and documentation goes into this sort of thing. It would force many technical writers to also focus on interface much more than they do now with standard Robohelp systems or other standard documentation.
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Until they start implanting happy thoughts and images into the system to keep the workers productive. "You love your job."
I cant what to see what happens when someone hacks into this system. I expect to see some cars reminiscent of my early childhood efforts with mecanno.
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This day has been a long time in coming. In addition to reading books, I now spend much of my time listening to books, websites, etc., and I am not hearing impaired.
ATT's "NaturalVoices" technology (utilized by TextAloudMP3) is just exponentially better than the old Stephen Hawking voice, adds tone, inflection, etc., using grammatical clues, and makes even listening to Project Gutenberg's E-Texts of Charles Dickens Novels enjoyable.
The big productivity boost in this technology is that after a little bit of practice, you can listen to an unabridged text file probably 20 times faster than reading, especially as you do not have to stop while driving, jogging, etc...
I can't believe there hasn't been more industrial use of this technology.
I've tried to get the PG folks to promote this more as it would make the "market" for their E-Books much larger, but that is pretty much the opposite of their very basic approach to technology. (i.e. not wanting to release their texts in anything other than a plain old ASCII format because they want their texts as widely accessible as possible.)
...When I was an undergraduate in CS at Columbia University (graduated in '93), the graphics guys were working on this.
:-(
It's nice that it's finally coming down the pipeline 10 years later. Makes me wish I was still on the inside instead of looking at all this stuff as an outsider.
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In this day and age Automotive companies are still using people to do manufacturing?
How barbaric.
Talk to most anyone who works on an assembly line and they will tell you that their job is as boring as hell. Some might say that they almost feel like a machine themselves.
Contrast this with a labourer who builds furniture from scratch or a shoemaker and you find yourself in a different situation. While their actions are the same, their efforts have tangible results. If they have their own business selling what they've created the satisfaction runs deeper.
How are goggles shining lights in your face saying "Unscrew this next" going to make you feel any closer to the work that you're doing? It just seems like another level of detachment to me.
Why did the article discuss hardware problems but not social problems regarding the goggles?
Mind you, from a Slashdot geek perspective, the goggles are a cool idea, but I don't feel envious of the people who are going to have to use these things on an assembly line.
Technology that augments workers instead of replacing them, here's some progress that takes humans into account!
data goggles mark the screws and bolts on which he must next place his tool. Hehe
Hilarious SNL sketch at your typical morning talk show when the teleprompter goes down. It quickly reverts into a Lord of the Flies type situation, with Will Farrell's host character ripping the head off (and drinking the blood) of David Allen Grier's weatherman character as a show of strength.
I was pretty sure that the first commercial use of augmented reality would be p0rn related.
I know I've heard about these augmented reality goggle thingamazoos before.
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
Sure its definately cool, but its scary too. Imagine directions being constantly spoken into your ear as you perform your job.
Human beings are not efficent organisms, neither in chemistry or psychology. You can't expect a human to act like a machine, something has got to give.
On Wall Street they say "buy low, sell high" On the pad we say, "buy high, sell high" Isn't that somehow better?
I tried one of the AR displays a few months back. The main reason why I thought that particular model was unsuitable for prolonged use, was that the text and other information appeared at a different depth from the object I was observing. The AR information was displayed at a fixed "infinite" depth.This made it impossible to focus on both the text and object at the same time, requiring me to adjust my eye focus everytime I wanted to read something. This constant refocussing caused a good amount of discomfort.
Adjusting the depth of the text to make sure it is exactly superimposed on the object that is being viewed is quite challenging, especially when the viewer moves his line of sight frequently.
An alternate design that some people find easier to adjust to uses a display mounted on a single eye (with the RW showing up in a dimmed background). I haven't tried these, but supposedly they are easier to get used to.
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I look at a crowd of women and it gives me stats and percentage success rate with different "targets".
I then talk to her and up pops up witty and appropate comments.
I then start making out with her and then I get a Blue Screen of Death/Seg Fault.
"Excuse babe, I need to Google something."
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The four biggest problems with extensive adoption of this idea are:
1. Safety and Liability. I can just imagine a bug telling the new assembly line "cyber drone" to drill a hole 1 foot to the left when it meant one inch (shades of Nigel Tuefnel!), and the resulting explosion when he drills into the fuel tank. That, and the possibility of anyone who screws up telling his supervisor "Hey, that's what the Magic Smart Goggles told me to do!"
2. Cost. Technical writers are comparatively cheap [and easy to lay off, he noted bitterly]. Programmers are expensive. If the new Mark 2 Framistan has holes in a different places, that's five minutes of work tops to put the new information in existing manuals, but a day to write the code, debug it, and test the magic googles to make sure they're acurately pointing out the new framistan holes rather than the old ones.
3. Limited Applicability to Modern Manufacturing. A good portion of the most repetative assembly line jobs have already moved overseas. Many of the mechanical assembly jobs left don't require one worker doing the same thing 100 times, but doing 100 different things on a far more complex tool (i.e., the difference between assembling a toaster and assembling, say, an Ion Implanter). Optimizing "Enhanced Reality" for one task performed 100 times a day may be cost effective, but not for programming and training the system for hundreds of tasks.
4. The Awesome Power of Human Stupidity. Everytime they make something idiot proof, nature has shown the amzing ability to come up with a better idiot.
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Years ago, before multi-layer PC boards worked well, there was something called "semi-automated wire wrap". Production wire wrap involves wiring up big circuit boards with thousands of wires. Fully automated wire wrap machines were huge and expensive, and manual wire wrap tended to have too many errors. So "semi-automated wire wrap" was developed. Lights indicated the row and column where the wire was to be attached. The position of the hand-held wire wrap gun was monitored through a mechanical linkage, and if it was in the wrong place, pulling the trigger did nothing. Thus, when a wire was attached, it had to be in the right place.
The equipment for this was far simpler than the fully automated machine, so, using low-wage workers, it became a common way of building boards. It totally de-skills the job. In an hour, anyone can learn it.
It makes me wonder, when this technology is going to enter the field of medicine? I don't think I am ready for a physician with a Dell box strapped to his head..
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I can see a REALLY big problem with this approach, that will probably be difficult to properly instruct for, and that is inconsistencies, errors, and dangerous situations that could crop up, and the technician in question (though if they keep dumbing down the instruction, "technician" might no longer apply) might not be able to tell what is wrong or how severe it is.
Remember, for problems, textbooks usually have fairly lengthy descriptions of types of failures and things to look for, with some representative pictures, but predominately with descriptions. Descriptions allow for describing a blanket set of bad circumstances without having to show one specific circumstance, so the technician could fairly easily connect the condition of a part or assembly to the verbage that was in the textbook. In picture instruction, if the picture of the type of error doesn't look close enough to the actual error, the technician might not realise the severity of the problem, because it was never covered under the training video. Rather than being taught the theory behind what is occuring, (s)he is being taught the specific, one case implementation.
I'm not against training videos, but I believe strongly in training with more than just their use. Hands on training, as well as textbook training for theory offer a much more well-rounded way to learn, especially if the person being trained is going to be performing the same basic job for a long time on many different yet similar machines or models. Once the initial education has been bestowed, freshening of education for a newer model would be almost trivial.
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Anyone who's read the excellent "A Deepness In the Sky" will recognise these goggles as the "huds" in that book.
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Am I nitpicking, or is the term "Augmented Reality" a bit of a misnomer. Reality is reality, what we augment is our perception of reality.
This article is rather bland and trite in comparison to Scientific American's article that goes into a greater depth about the value of AR in the future (April 2002).
The comments so far have been asking whether or not assembly workers actually need the AR. I would say many don't, however, as manufacturing becomes more and more automated, the actual jobs of the workers/repairmen on the line will probably increase in complexity leading to an excellent use of AR.
EETimes doesn't even mention the possiblity of gaming with AR. Check out the sciam link to see more about gaming with AR.
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Back when I thought Michael Chritchton (I think I probably spelled both of those wrong, I'm retarded) was the greatest, I read all of his books.
In Disclosure, they were testing out these goggles that do the same thing, but on airplanes.
I'm not sure when that book was published, but I would guess prior to or during '95 because I don't think I read his stuff while I was in college and was too busy. I certainly haven't read anything of his since college.
I guess then it was vaporware, and now it is for real. Hot damn.
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I don't know about you, but I always hate it when Windows (yes, I know) forces me to go through a fucking "wizard" in order to do things. I like to learn and do things at my own pace and in my own order, and I *definitely* would hate to be a skilled technician being told through an earpiece how to use a screwdriver.
(OK, I'll go RTFA now.)
I know you were joking, but I want my Karma, so I'm going to reiterate your post in a serious tone.
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The vernor vinge short story fast times at fairmont high, is a very interesting story on consensual/augmented reality. Generally posetive but also berwilderingly alien also.
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That could make dating so much more reliable for us geeks. Just think what it would be like if you already knew that she shared the same interests, etc. You could probably have built in web access to these things too and check out her online profile. Oh wait... we're probably already sitting in front of our computers looking at her profile before we attempt dating anyway :-)
There are real health problems acossiated with this technology : A CAVE (yeah, a room filled with VERY big screens, often used by oil and automobile companies to display 3D graphics) will disturb your visual balance/depth, enough to impair your driving. In Norway you have restrictions on your driving after too much time inside a CAVE.
A day in front of a lousy monitor gives you less of a headache than a day of using even expensive, high-quality googles.
Technology like this is, like any other fancy GUI, has it's place, when used in an appropiate manner with well designed applications.
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then what chance does an independent auto mechanic have of keeping up? I think the manufacturers will use this technology to further control the service end of the business.
This gives me the impression that prodution can actually slow down when workers use this. Think about it for a second. Workers on a production line become familiarized with undertaking tasks in a fashion that's helpful to themselves, they often get accustomed to doing things they way they want to which is sometimes faster than going through steps 1 - 5. By having to be told how to do things they have to stop and listen for one (which takes up time slows down production), and they have to deal with the impersonal feeling of now becoming robotic (if you will and I'll try to explain).
I think we all agree with the statement technoolgy has made things better all around, however sometimes it's not in our best interest to have everything modernized with technology. For instance if you called a local police precint in New York you get the ever-so-rude press one for whatever: press two for whatever: and so forth. Get to what I'm saying? Maybe companies should instead opt to have a debriefer course of sorts with their employees to ensure they have an understanding of things instead of forcing them to hear some tech talk which (to me) is rather impersonal
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IIRC, Wired and/or /. had an article several years ago about Boeing using a simlilar system for jet liner assembly.
Does anyone remember that music video called "hellbound" I believe. All the factory workers wear these happy goggles and work really hard but when their life is over and they take the glasses off they realized their life had been a total failure and completely meaninless. It was done in claymation with really depressing music. Does anyone else remember this?
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Boeing already uses this technology for wiring their planes during the assembly process. I see this mentioned on our local news just about every other month. It's very definitely a cool technology, but it looks like the automotive industry is (still) behind the times.
That's... horrible. Efficent, economical and innovative. But horrible--you remove every bit of skill, creativity, and inititive ( I know, I know, not much to begin with ) and make people into meat robots. The real problem is, people will start expecting workers to *be* like robots. No training, no intro, just stick a pair of glasses on them and tell them what bolts to turn. If they slack a little, well the glasses will probably beep at them and alert payroll. You're naive if you don't believe that isn't one of the advertised benifits. I can see a day when people will be fired for putting in four screws in counter-clockwise when the labled instructions told them to do it clockwise.
The system described in 'Airframe' by Micheal Crighton (sp?) - which is well worth a read if you can find a copy.
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Back in '95, working for a DoD contractor, I saw a demo of some augmented reality gear being proposed for equipment troubleshooting and maintenance applications. The goggles were the same material used in head-up displays, coupled with an earpiece/microphone/camera in the headgear.
The microphone provided input for possibly the best voice input setup I've ever seen to date, in that it actually recognized a user saying things like, "yeah, uh-huh" and similar grunt/groan acknowledgements. The goggles were linked to a rather cool pattern recognition system. A small status bar in the side of the display provided a couple of icons to let the user know they were on the right track, a smiley/mr. yuck set of icons provided a status as to system "lock" status (or not).
The major downside to all this was the hardware in '95 to support all this was rather intensive. I recall 3-4 towers, plus a custom-built rather hefty cube-shaped box (no, not a next cube) that handled all the pattern-recognition processing and voice input. Oh, and the hefty wiring to the headgear.
Other than that, pretty darn cool back in '95...
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Prepping our booth now for SIGGRAPH in San Diego later this month. We will be presenting a pair of two player mixed reality games on the show floor. We're using Canon video see through HMD's to put the player in a Sci-Fi Time Portal shoot 'em up game as well as a mixed reality aquarium game where you play ball with dolphins.
The idea is to get away from the "text in space" phenomenon that is present with most augmented or mixed reality systems to try and blend the real and the virtual seamlessly - meaning you can put some virtual character in the center of the room and interact, all the while seeing the real objects in the room as well as your buddies waiting on the sidelines. Interactive sets, lighting, and spatial audio wrap it off. Our placeholder website is available at http://www.mcl.ucf.edu/
Should be fun for anyone coming to San Diego!
I could see where statistics, maintained by the system, would organize down to the very last microcent which employee was more productive than another. Given training will be no longer required, the employee can be ranked as easily as a solenoid valve, and replaced just as easily.
This is great news for the businessman, who will undoubtedly lobby ( and win ) any changes to employment law to maximize his profit, just as many IP/Copyright holders are doing now.
This is sad news indeed for the laborer. I guess his prime function in life is just to reproduce and make more laborers.
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Note that you could implement a clever hack job that would make all the employees fabricate say.. a giant lexus-branded steel penis. Since they've been reduced to following step by step operating codes, this taking over of worker directives would probably not be noticed until the very end. Likewise, corporate espionage could in the future consist of stealing the proper meme-program (obligatory ref: snow crash) to whatever missle tech is currently trendy. This is a consequence of further removing the worker from the means of production.
Do you mean something like this that was on slashdot a year ago?
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The real application for these is an on-demand assembly line to replace a multitude of expensive single product lines that probably don't need to run all the time.
Picture an automotive assembly line that has 300 assembly stations, each one of which gets the "next part" supplied by a chain driven conveyer bringing it to the station on a hook.
Jane, who takes care of placing and tightening down the intake manifold on the engine block in front of her, no longer has to either think about what torque to use, what bolt pattern, or really, anything. Follow the instructions, tighten the bolts per the visual overlay pattern at the designated torque, and on to the next block coming down the line and intake manifold coming off the parts conveyer belt.
The ultimate end of this is much like the Microsoft commercial where the guy in the showroom is picking whether he wants a black car or a red car, and the manufacturing plant is responding almost instantly. Now extend this to not beginning the production on a car until an order is placed, and it'll be ready that day for delivery to the customer's city.
And yes, this reduces Jane to a non-thinking bio-machine for the assembly line. That's the really awful part of this process.
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with the big claw on it to position his head exactly where it needs to be to align the images on the goggles with the hands-on media.
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very very similar in a _really_ old Wired article (paper, not web, can you dig it?) At least 4 years ago, I think it was an article about Boeing or some other large airplane manufacturer. Workers had goggles aiding them with the complex task of wiring the airplanes (guess they could see if they had to cut the red or the blue wire) Now if only I could find it back....
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Boeing in St. Louis (military fighter division) uses goggle technology for several manufacturing processes. One example is when making wiring harnesses for aircraft. The wiring harnesses are very complex and can span over 100 feet. They used to have specific pattern boards for every different harness with pegs to support the wires and drawings to follow right on the boards. Now, they use a generic board with a grid of supports and they put a pair of goggles on that superimposes the wiring diagram on the board so that they can manufacture the harness of the day.
I believe they have also applied this technology to the maintenance task to the degree that someone at a remote site can put on a pair of the goggles and be guided by visual highlighting superimposed over the aircraft parts to a task. They may also access schematics that do not superimpose and listen to guidance through the same networked device as they perform their task.
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These use the heads-up overlay display technology.
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brain stem electrodes that control an employees muscles directly?
In the car plant I work at (which will have to remain nameless) the workers learn how to build cars by trial and error.
When a new model comes they start by producing only one a day. The cars that result from the first months of production are so bad that they have to be repaired by experts in a special hall, sometimes taking several days for each car.
The first hundred or so cars are only used for presentations, road tests and crash tests anyway, so it's no big deal if they don't look perfect.
Unfortunately, by the time the car goes into full production most of the workers still don't know what they are doing, and it takes a few hundred defect cars in a row before anyone decide to do anything about the problem.
I guess a system like this would be ideal for the starting phase of production, to train up the workers. The only problem is that whoever sets up the system in the beginning would have to know how to build the car in the optimal way (including all variations). Usually nobody has this knowledge until after the fact.
I don't understand the point of this. If you are having to program a goggle interface complex enough to recognize the screws from any nearby position and have it mark every last step, why not just put a robot arm on it instead of putting a person there? If you are mechaniziing the decision making and visual recognition, the only thing left - arm movement, is cake.
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Because we participate in our Reality through the very perception of it, Augmented reality is, unfortunatly, an accurate term.
Without elaborating too much or giving too many examples: take a colored light and shine it at a wall. Hold up a opaque object and you will see the complimentory color of the light as the shadow. Yes, you might narrow it down to biochemistry in our optics, but if you look at this result purely empirically, it shows our perception of reality if far from REAL. We do not observe the vibrations know to our perceptions as color and light. We percieve a completely different "reality" from actual reality.
Read a little Goethe to cover the light and color phenomena.
I want to go down a road, switch my wearable to learning Spanish and see la Iglesia pop up right in front of me when I pass a church. When shopping for peaches I get Las peras son muy apreciadas. (Please note that I do not speak Spanish, so my examples may suck. That's exactly why I want that system.)
The machine would know my position via GPS or 3G mobile phone localization services. Starting 2005 I could enter a Wal Mart and my AR system would send a message to the RFID chips on the shelf:
I would learn Spanish in no time even without the possibility to stay for some month in Spain, Mexico or South America.
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He is receiving instructions through an ear piece telling him what to do next ....
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The interesting result is that the subjects would follow the procedure the computer gave them very closely - so closely they would ignore steps in the standard procedure (that they are required to do) that the computer didn't tell them to do.
I think we need to look much more carefully into these before people use them seriously.
I'm sure there were already working prototypes, it's not a unique idea, etc etc, but something very similar to this was described in the novel Airframe, published a few years back - a VR headset used to access the manual. It sounds even cooler now with the ability to delve through "virtual parts," but I remember thinking that was a neat idea at the time.
That said, I still prefer printed manuals to the PDF files that come with most software from a store, so who knows how usable a virtual manual would be.
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The first thing that came to my mind when I read this was "System Shock".
The second thing that came to my mind was "hey, that's pretty cool".
The third thing that came to my mind was "how useful is that for assembly lines, though?".
I guess if they can make them cheap enough it would be worth it, but I have to wonder if going full-robotics wouldn't make more sense in that case.
What I would find this very useful, and very cool, for, is the kind of task that requires highly specialized expertise that is relatively scarce, particularly when (and where) it's needed.
This could be very useful to help someone who's expertise is less-than-perfect, but happens to be the only person available, grasp the situation quickly and have a better chance at doing the job.
Now, I'm not saying we're going to need this for alien infestations and supercomputers gone berserk.
I'm talking things like medicine (particularly specialized surgery), industrial accidents, forensic investigations, terrorist crises (disarming explosives, not FPS wargames), etc.
The kind of situations where flying an expert over would be very expensive, perhaps dangerous, and probably impossible, but a junior professional could be supervised (and in the process trained) to do the job.
I would think that's the kind of situation where one would be thankful, rather than annoyed, for the magical googles labeling objects and transmitting instructions on the fly. Particularly if there is a feedback mechanism for someone on the other side to answer your questions and dynamically label the things you ask for.
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when I started noticing how MANY times I saw the word "goggle" misspelled as "google"....
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The other method is active focus which bounces an infrared beam off the object and measures the distance.
Neither is perfect, but in a controlled manufacturing setting it would be easy to create 'focus points' on objects which would allow the system to focus the right distance. Heck, with that you could probably build the system to focus specifically on the correct part, further eliminating confusion.
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Imagine how a device like this would improve the experience of loosing your virginity.
In my mind the military have been working on these kinds of things, not for slavish micromanagement, but to provide a kind of hud for folks to hook into information sources like airbourne surveilance, location of friendlies etc. You could certainly use it for more skilled tasks to make info available.
Next thing you know, they'll have goggles that make it easier for people to assasinate someone.
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I'll bet you see a whole new version of the time and motion studies with these things. It'll cause worker unrest and eventually strikes until a more reasonable compromise is reached.
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In fact, they were just starting to develop the specs before I was laid off this last January. Their ultimate goal was to develop a wearable computer, with goggles and earpiece just as described in the story, that could be used by any A&P mechanic, not just the assembly line folk.
I think someone even had an idea that the system would be smart enough to where an inspector could look at, say, part of a turbofan engine and, if said engine was missing a fix mandated by a maintenance bulletin, would notice this and pop up an alert, pointing out what needed to be done.
The applications for something like this are limited only by imagination, the available CPU power, and the network bandwidth.
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The clever idea would be to use the free-space medium for direct pin-point-accurate stimulation and activity-imaging of the aural and visual portions of the brain, by phased-array high-frequency sources, both ultrasonic and electromagnetic. People in close proximity to the lucky trainee won't even be able to detect it. Having the trainee relatively immobile in front of a computer presents a nearly ideal training setup. The phased array could even be placed outside the trainee's room.
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It strikes me that the complaint that it just turns people into robots only highlights that the people that are replaced by robots are actually only doing jobs that can be replaced by robots... I think this means that those jobs should defininately be done with robots wherever possible to avoid the boring, repetitive strain on people (ie: we shouldn't allow people to do jobs that robots can do because people aren't robots and shouldn't be treated as such). I think I made sense there... not sure!
That thought came about because this system can only be applied in circumstances where a robot is also suitable - quite frankly, if a vison and and help system knows what to do - it can drive a robot.
The operator drops a heavy tool and the display reads...
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This is what Augmented Reality was originaly designed for. A boeing employee came up with the idea while working on engines.
Other ideas have been:
1) Constuction - Allowing building inspectors / contractors to see the layout of the building, already ran wire through the walls (to help aid in routing), to see city pipes/underground powerlines before digging
2) Self guided tours - Give directions, brief text, show how/where buildings once stood, draw "ghost" like people in clothing of a certain time period
3) Repair - As mentioned, repair of a car, computer, laser printer. Animated lined images show you have a certain "do-hickey" fits in a "thing-a-majig"
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- Airfraime
, to be specific. It's how the protagonist discovers the auxiliary data-recorder that lets her solve the mystery. And this is copyright 1996.What is the difference between a small revolutionary change and a large evolutionary change?
This might well be the next big thing.
Goggles for gardening. Shows you how deep to cut hole, which branches to prune.
Goggles for repairing things. Car broke down, need to fix breaks? With the goggles you'll be able to do it yourself, no problem.
Goggles for battlefield medicine. Quick, your buddy's arm just got blown off. He's gonna die in minutes and the medics are dead. Put on goggles and at least give it a shot.
Handwriting recognition would have to be good. So you could do stuff have the goggles point out mistakes as you are doing your calculus homework.
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Wired magazine several years ago had an article about some AR goggles in use at Boeing. Despite the idea that all 777's are identical, in fact they're customized for the airline they're destined for. The goggles were worn by workers who were making up wiring harnesses. They were time-savers in that they told the worker what length, color & gauge wire to run from connector "A" to connector "B" without the worker having to consult a paper wiring list. With several miles of wire in the typical jet, it reduced the number of errors that were made.
I think this is probably the correct type of work for AR goggles because it involves a specialized task that varies just enough to make it error-prone by us poor humans. AR goggles would be unsuited for something like an engine assembly line, as the engines are identical, or only have 2 or 3 variations at most, and most motions are repetitive (something which robots are good at and people aren't, but I won't go into that).
AR goggles might be useful in automotive during final assembly for luxury cars, where each car is customized for the buyer (grey leather and burl walnut, vs. black leather and carbon-fiber trim). Both BMW and Mercedes have programs where you can order a car interior *exactly* the way you want it (and you'll pay for it, too!) The cost of correcting a mistake for a custom-built car might cover the purchase price of a set of goggles.
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WOW! I didn't even know that those robots of THOSE assembly lines needed MANUALS in the first place! Truly advanced A.I. I guess.
Fair enough.
That is EXACTLY what I was thinking of when I read the parent post. That quote and
"Take the average price of settlement and call that X..."
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