Why Augmented Reality?
Augmented reality allows us to increase our ability to access knowledge. It is a technology that allows access to an invisible digital layer of information that is associated with objects and everything around us. Ultimately, in the future, we will all have smart glasses with which we will be able to access all the information available online about an object, space or person.
This technology is currently accessible on our smartphones, tablets and through mixed reality glasses, such as Microsoft Hololens
When an employee who does not know the assembly line, can use mixed reality glasses to quickly learn their tasks and the sequence of operation.
With augmented reality, the manuals can have a digital layer of content, that is, on the sheets of paper there can be videos demonstrating the materials, 3D simulations or simply links to “more information” available online (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5UB_42F7mU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MArFzB6UM7o).
It can be said that augmented reality is the link between the real world and the digital world, which allows human beings to increase their ability to access information without this implying stopping what they are doing to touch a screen, not , simply the information appears before the user's eyes.