Augmented Reality: Increasing Availability and Its Implication for SMEs
- The Augmented reality (AR) technologies have been first discovered in the third quarter of the twentieth century. However, the wider development of them has taken place only in the last two decades. By now, the research has shown that AR can be used in various areas of human activity. In industry, AR simplifies humanmachine communication and improves human-machine interfaces (HMI) for fast and feedback-provided retrieval of training/guidance information for operation pattern study, error correction, machine maintenance, assembly assistance, etc. In spite of that, the broad practical implementation of AR in industry, including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has faced considerable problems. As a result, the following controversy emerged: the comprehensive study of AR is combined with a rather narrow practical use primarily for advertising and demonstration tasks. This chapter attempts not only to overview the current state of AR in the industry, but also demonstrate the current challenges the AR is facing, as well as toThe Augmented reality (AR) technologies have been first discovered in the third quarter of the twentieth century. However, the wider development of them has taken place only in the last two decades. By now, the research has shown that AR can be used in various areas of human activity. In industry, AR simplifies humanmachine communication and improves human-machine interfaces (HMI) for fast and feedback-provided retrieval of training/guidance information for operation pattern study, error correction, machine maintenance, assembly assistance, etc. In spite of that, the broad practical implementation of AR in industry, including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has faced considerable problems. As a result, the following controversy emerged: the comprehensive study of AR is combined with a rather narrow practical use primarily for advertising and demonstration tasks. This chapter attempts not only to overview the current state of AR in the industry, but also demonstrate the current challenges the AR is facing, as well as to analyse their respective causes and suggest solution ideas. It is also intended to assess the prospects for further development of AR and its continued integration into the industry. For this purpose, several examples of AR projects, their development, practical use and upgrading (performed by the authors of this study as well) are presented.…
Author: | Vadym Bilous, Ronny PorschORCiD, Konstantinos Spanoudakis |
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ISBN: | 978-3-031-15427-0 |
Title of the source (English): | The Future of Smart Production for SMEs: A Methodological and Practical Approach Towards Digitalization in SMEs |
Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
Place of publication: | Cham |
Editor: | Ole Madsen, Ulrich BergerORCiD, Charles Møller, Astrid Heidemann Lassen, Brian Vejrum Wæhrens, Casper Shou |
Document Type: | Part of a book (chapter) |
Language: | English |
Year of publication: | 2022 |
Edition: | 1. Auflage |
First Page: | 349 |
Last Page: | 356 |
Faculty/Chair: | Fakultät 3 Maschinenbau, Elektro- und Energiesysteme / FG Automatisierungstechnik |