I see your point as we own a Hololens2 and quickly realized that yes, the wearable tech is still light years away from being practical. What's not light years away, however, is the device that everyone has sitting in their pocket.
If you can pull out your phone, point it at any asset, and immediately see equipment specs, SOPs, and guided procedures, there certainly is value in that. If you're trying to find pump a32 in a massive facility, and can type it in your phone and be directly guided there, surely there is value in that as well. These use cases go on and on.
Coarse-grained systems like that are probably more valuable in the near term.
Especially if you can take a picture of pump a32 and its asset tag, and that picture and location goes into a searchable database without much typing. That lets you build the database over time.
If everyone used Hololens2 for this now and then the smart phone came about tomorrow it would be seen as a huge upgrade with not having to wear the headset.
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I see your point as we own a Hololens2 and quickly realized that yes, the wearable tech is still light years away from being practical. What's not light years away, however, is the device that everyone has sitting in their pocket.
If you can pull out your phone, point it at any asset, and immediately see equipment specs, SOPs, and guided procedures, there certainly is value in that. If you're trying to find pump a32 in a massive facility, and can type it in your phone and be directly guided there, surely there is value in that as well. These use cases go on and on.
Coarse-grained systems like that are probably more valuable in the near term. Especially if you can take a picture of pump a32 and its asset tag, and that picture and location goes into a searchable database without much typing. That lets you build the database over time.
If everyone used Hololens2 for this now and then the smart phone came about tomorrow it would be seen as a huge upgrade with not having to wear the headset.
Seems like you're in one of these target industries!
Willing to chat about this more? =]
Absolutely.
Didn't see you were the OP — that makes more sense!
Pop an email address in your bio, would you?
Would love to pick your brain a bit!
Thanks!
Added! Shoot me an email when you can.