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September 19, 2024: Issue 112

Must See 👀 Scott Burkey has been sharing highly actionable and very insightful posts on the XR at Work LinkedIn page, like “Objections on the Shop Floor”.  We are big fans of XR at Work and love seeing these new posts.  Check them out!

What’s Inside: 

• 🏗️ AI is Building the Future (Literally)
  
• 🏭 Paving the Way for Smart Factories with Augmented Reality
• ↗️ How AI is Powering Up VR Training
• 😎 HTC VIVE Launches XR Headset for Enterprises
• 🏃  Reality Capture Taking Big Strides to Build B2B Usability
• ➕ BP Expanding AI

WHAT'S BIG

AI is Building the Future (Literally)

(Image Credit: AZO Build)

Managing construction projects is like juggling hardhats, hammers, and a ticking clock. Good news: AI is stepping in to make things smoother, safer, and maybe a little less headache-inducing.

This week’s Industrial IMMERSIVE article explores how AI is transforming architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC). New tech is helping companies reduce costs, boost safety, and keep projects moving smoothly.

Here’s a little preview of what you’ll learn:

• How AI can keep your projects on track without breaking the budget 
• AI-powered tools that actually make job sites safer
• Challenges to implementing AI successfully
• How AI can solve some of the industry's most pressing issues
• Targeted AI use cases that can streamline your workflow
• The secret sauce to using AI in AEC: Don’t boil the ocean

Catch you on the construction site of the future!

Read the full story on AI in AEC

WHAT'S UP

• Paving the Way: The “smart factory” is becoming increasingly important in modern day-to-day production. With augmented reality, frontline workers can translate processes into assisted, augmented reality workflows where everything happens right in the worker’s field of vision, increasing productivity, decreasing error rates, improving quality, and saving costs.
  
• AI-Mazing Training: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming VR training, bringing unprecedented levels of personalization, efficiency, and engagement to the learning experience. Learn how AI is driving improvements in VR training across various sectors.

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WHAT'S NEXT

• HTC VIVE launched its new headset VIVE Focus Vision. The new Extended Reality (XR) headset is the latest in HTC VIVE’s highly popular VIVE Focus Series, with a wealth of improvements and new features to give gamers and enterprise users alike the best possible immersive experience for PCVR and standalone gaming, as well as Location-Based Experiences (LBE), industrial training, collaboration, and mixed reality applications.
• Metaroom, a service from Amrax, introduced new 2D export features to its B2B spatial data capture toolkit. The Metaroom spatial data capture solution is aimed at workers in construction and property sectors to digital map 3D versions of real-world indoor spaces.
• Glartek announced the positive outcomes of its partnership with E-REDES, the primary operator of Portugal's national electricity distribution network. This collaboration has introduced Glartek's Connected Worker solution for visual remote assistance and enhanced the efficiency and safety of E-REDES' field operations.

• BP plc is partnering with Palantir Technologies Inc. for new artificial intelligence capabilities. The two companies signed an enterprise agreement that will extend their strategic relationship and introduce new AI capabilities with Palantir’s AIP software

WHAT'S THE DEAL

• Cognite and Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES), a global provider of solutions for the agriculture, energy, and chemical markets, recently announced a collaboration focusing on leveraging Cognite Data Fusion® to accelerate their digital transformation journey. 

• ClearEdge3D announced its entry into the AVEVA™ Partner Ecosystem as an Independent Software Vendor. 
• Bentley Systems, a leading provider of infrastructure engineering software, acquired Cesium’s 3D geospatial application creation platform in a move that consolidates each group’s platforms and users to provide open framework digital infrastructure solutions.

WHAT ELSE

(Image Credit: Auganix)

Kopin Corporation recently announced that it has been awarded a follow-on contract worth USD $1.5 million to supply a near eye, thermal imaging vision system, designed to fit inside of a firefighter mask.

According to Kopin, the firefighting mask helps to dramatically enhance a firefighter’s effectiveness whilst operating in smoke-filled buildings and saving potential victims. The mask includes a Kopin thermal imaging vision system composed of a miniaturized AMLCD (active-matrix liquid crystal display) and optics, integrated into the mask’s facepiece.

Firefighters can look at a display inside the mask, which is connected to a small thermal camera mounted to the side of the mask. The mask enables firefighters to operate the display system hands-free and view clear, real-time video of thermal imagery in their field of view, unaffected by environmental conditions such as smoke.

Kopin stated that traditionally, firefighters have relied on handheld thermal imaging cameras, which can hinder their performance, focus and dexterity. The ruggedized, in-mask, thermal imaging vision system from the company offers an adjustable optical solution that adapts to the firefighter, freeing both hands, and enhancing their effectiveness during life-saving search and rescue missions. Read on for more. -->  (h/t Auganix)

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