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Google Glass Enters The Manufacturing Sector (npr.org)
NPR recently profiled one of the 100 factory workers now using Google Glass at the agricultural equipment manufacturer AGCO. An anonymous reader quotes their report:
Google Glass tells her what to do should she forget, for example, which part goes where. "I don't have to leave my area to go look at the computer every time I need to look up something," she says. With Google Glass, she scans the serial number on the part she's working on. This brings up manuals, photos or videos she may need. She can tap the side of headset or say "OK Glass" and use voice commands to leave notes for the next shift worker...
Peggy Gullick, business process improvement director with AGCO, says the addition of Google Glass has been "a total game changer." Quality checks are now 20 percent faster, she says, and it's also helpful for on-the-job training of new employees... Tiffany Tsai, who writes about technology, says it's one of a growing number of companies -- including General Electric and Boeing -- testing it out... Companies working in the health care, entertainment and energy industries are listed as some of the Google Glass certified partners.
AGCO plans to have 200 workers using Google Glass by the end of this year.
Peggy Gullick, business process improvement director with AGCO, says the addition of Google Glass has been "a total game changer." Quality checks are now 20 percent faster, she says, and it's also helpful for on-the-job training of new employees... Tiffany Tsai, who writes about technology, says it's one of a growing number of companies -- including General Electric and Boeing -- testing it out... Companies working in the health care, entertainment and energy industries are listed as some of the Google Glass certified partners.
AGCO plans to have 200 workers using Google Glass by the end of this year.
In AGCO's case it looks like they make products that are not assembly-line and not otherwise terribly automated simply because agricultural products are not made in sufficient volume to justify the costs to automate. Too much per-customer customization, too little volume, and the machines are very expensive so it's kind of hard to try to force customers into not customizing.
My biggest concern with things like on-demand lookup is that it may lead to people thinking they're more knowledgeable or capable than they are; that reference substitutes for experience. I've seen it firsthand where people in the IT field think they're all-that but they really don't know what they're doing and are so reliant on reference materials that when the system behaves other than how it's supposed to they are unable to cope.
Hopefully AGCO won't have this problem, especially when they're applying the technology to manufacturing in particular.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Nonsense, a lot of people wanted them. I wanted one.
Privacy concerns helped kill it for one. Because the threat to your privacy isn't the NSA or CCTV cams everywhere or facebook on your phone or the two cameras on it. No no, it's a grainy camera on some tech bro's head evidently.
Also the thing was absurdly overhyped. The video announcing it made it seem like it would be a full view overlay, not like holding your phone up off to the side. But I'd have still maybe wanted one so I could read while walking around without looking down at my phone.
Pretty common for technology that doesn't catch on in the consumer market to get used elsewhere. Google's not just going to throw away their asset.
Google Glass is just an AR headset, one among many, and one with a fairly limited feature set. These kinds of simple, monocular AR headsets have been around for a while commercially, for example the Epson Moverio and the Vusix. For higher quality AR, the Microsoft Hololens and the Meta are probably better choices.
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Couldn't make your point without crossing the line into the obscene?
lucm, indeed.
And this is where it should have been rolled out first, not as a toy for dudebros to wear in clubs.
Think of surgeons and pilots who need HUD data while at work, repair personnel who can have manual pages open while they fix your product, lawyers being able to search Lexis in the courtroom, and wilderness guides able to have the 'map in front of them' at all times as a link to their GPS.
So many times I have to "google" a part number to find out what it does, oh...it's an 24 Bit AD converter, now let me find the datasheet.
Imagine if I could just look at the PCB as I do normally when searching and fault-finding, and have a Video-overlay with simple specs on each chip and device I am looking at, and perhaps with a few blinks just bring up the datasheets and quickly close them again.
Are you kidding me? This is SUPER useful!
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
Constantly tapping the screen to stay awake... Or constantly putting it out of ur pocket... Or no where to place the phone cause you need two hands to fix something as your looking at the manual. This sits on your face... Where you'd probably be wearing work glasses anyway... And your hands are free to actual do the maintenance while the manual is easy to view.
So I'm just going to start hitting that random dude that plops himself next to me at the urinal
I went to play golf one morning by myself and on the first tee I saw another single golfer who came up and asked if I wanted to play a round with him. It was fucking Jack Nicklaus! So I said yes, thank you, and we proceeded to play. He had a cooler full of beer, so I gradually relaxed and we were having a fine afternoon. We get to the 3rd tee and he excuses himself to go pee. He comes back and there is a yellow stripe right across the knees of his white pants. I say nothing, because it's fucking Jack Nicklaus. We play a couple more holes, he goes off to relieve himself again. Again he comes back, this time with another yellow stripe across his pant leg. I think this is odd, but it's Jack Nicklaus. I say nothing. This happens a third time, at the 10th hole. This time I can't contain myself. I say casually, "Hey Jack, how come every time you go to the men's room you come back with a yellow stripe across your pants?" He looks resigned and annoyed and says, "Because every time there is a guy using the urinal next to me who eventually looks up surprised and turns to me and says 'Hey, you're Jack Nicklaus!"
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I was a google explorer (a beta tester but I paid for the glasses myself so i have direct and expensive experience). If you did something intensive like have an image looked up for a reference, it did so by sending the image to your coupled phone, had your phone look it up; then your phone sent back the data, and it would process the data and overlay it onto your view ...
Yes, that took as long as it sounds, was as buggy as it sounds, and killed battery as much as you would guess. Oh, and they got hot if you were really taxing them like that.
sigs are for losers (except to point out that sigs are for losers)