What is mixed reality?
Mixed reality (MR) is the technology that blurs the line between the physical world and the virtual world. The environment and everything in it is mapped. Then digital objects are projected into the environment. These digital objects are not only interactive with the environment, but also with each other. With MR glasses like the Hololens or Magic Leap, the user also has their hands free. Mixed reality displays 100% digital objects in the real world that users can interact with. Mixed reality is thus a mix of VR and AR.
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What are the benefits of mixed reality?
The special feature of this technique is that virtual objects and data are fixed in the real world. Mixed reality combines the techniques of VR and AR. For example, during a remote installation, it is possible to watch your employees and lead them step-by-step through processes. Save time and costs by simply showing your product or service in the place where the customer envisions it. In addition to these professional benefits, MR also has the “wow effect. Mixed reality is not only used to work more efficiently and smarter, but also to boost marketing and sales.
Applications of mixed reality
Since your question “What is mixed reality?” was explained above, it is also important to understand how and when MR is applied in practice. Deploying MR helps to improve business processes in the areas of prototyping, maintenance & support, process optimization, training & education, and marketing & sales.
This also makes MR suitable for training or familiarising employees, no more thick manuals. Total Reality has developed a technique that provides a link between your own hardware and the virtual environment. No game controllers but the actual operating system that is used in practice. Besides that you can let an expert watch remotely during a repair or maintenance of a machine.
Mixed reality by Total Reality
We offer MR solutions for different phases of the industrial life cycle with the aim of optimizing one of the business processes. For Emsflower, we developed an MR app that allows employees to assemble packaging carts faster and more accurately. The employees speak out loud for which customer they need the instructions and the correct data is automatically retrieved from the database and virtual shelves appear at the intended height. Using the app saves the company time and creates an efficient way of working.
We also developed a mixed reality instructions app for Autoliv. Autoliv develops airbags and seat belts for all leading car manufacturers worldwide. These products are tested in-house with crash test dummies. In order to perform proper crash tests, a car model must be exactly replicated. This takes a lot of time. The Hololens app that we have developed speeds up this construction process. Coordinates of parts are shown in the right positions, so that mechanics can place the right parts in the right place faster.
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Autoliv MR Instructions
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