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Article summary: Offering four ways mixed reality to transform industries today for on-site and distributed workforces.
The rise of hybrid work has brought new challenges to collaboration and communication, especially for teams spread across different locations. This is where mixed reality (MR) steps in, offering a unique blend of the physical and virtual worlds that can revolutionize how distributed teams work together.
- Remote MR Assistance: The past eight years have witnessed a surge in remote assistance technologies, driven by advancements in connectivity and wearable devices. This trend has empowered industry workers with real-time expert guidance, significantly reducing equipment downtime and optimizing operational efficiency.
- Virtual Training and Compliance: Trainees can learn new skills in realistic virtual environments or digital twins of your workspace that mimic real-world scenarios, accelerating the learning process and improving knowledge retention. Capture the expertise of select employees through MR recordings and simulations, making it easily accessible and transferable to new team members. These recorded ‘lessons’ will now be available in your shared virtual space and made available when needed. These same features can be used to onboard new employees and brief existing ones.
- Virtual Briefing: Use this same MR toolset to brief teams of program progress with a myriad of captured images, videos, and supporting material. Teams can showcase products in 3D to potential clients or stakeholders, allowing them to interact with and experience the product virtually, regardless of location.
- Real-time Diagnostics: Overlay crucial production data, maintenance manuals, and instructions onto physical machinery or scenes through a MR headset. This empowers workers to make informed decisions in real time, reducing errors and downtime. Imagine being able to have these curated views with pertinent content all around you removing the friction of digging through layers of windows and a multitude of directories and drives so you can focus on the task at hand.
These are just a few examples of how mixed reality can revolutionize enterprise collaboration, productivity, and innovation. As the technology continues to evolve and become more accessible, we can expect even more exciting applications to emerge, transforming the way businesses operate and how teams work together.
