BROWSING: AR

GlobalData sees digital twin tech getting a boost in Industry 4.0 era

Researcher calls out construction, automotive, healthcare, oil and gas, as verticals that will drive digital twin adoption While the concept of building a digital twin is not new, GlobalData Principal Disruptive Tech Analyst Kiran Raj sees certain industrial verticals already upping investments around data analysis,...

Latency, speed, propagation – Lufthansa Technik, and the real story of private 5G

Note, this post is continued from an article called, "5G helped us through Covid’ – Lufthansa Technik on private 5G with Nokia, Vodafone". Click here to see the previous instalment. But this is not about how a nascent technology will save your business. That is...

Ericsson on 2021: The year Industry 4.0 takes off – rocket-fuelled by private 5G

In 2021, increasing availability of 5G will provide the launching pad for manufacturing to truly evolve to Industry 4.0, the new industrial revolution that will push industries forward. Connected factories will move from isolated pilot programs and early test cases to truly integrated ecosystems,...

Verizon on 2021: 5G and MEC to deliver ‘untold breakthroughs for business’

While the Covid-19 global pandemic upended the world's expectations in 2020, fortunately, the technology industry has weathered the challenges as an essential component of daily life. Innovations in 5G and mobile edge compute (MEC) in particular continued to accelerate. Now enterprises have commercially available...

Samsung, IBM make pact on private 5G and edge compute for ‘industrial-scale’ AI

Samsung and IBM are to collaborate on on-premise industrial 5G and edge computing to drive the Industry 4.0 market, they have said. The pair want to combine their expertise in private 5G networks and edge computing, in the shape of Samsung’s 5G smartphones and...

From remote monitoring to remote control – four ways 5G will help in healthcare

Note, this article is taken from a new editorial report on the state of digital change in the healthcare sector (see image below). The report – Challenges with Digital Change in Healthcare – from low-level IoT sensing to big-bang 5G and AI, and how...

“It is right in front of us” – John Deere preps for 5G factory ‘revolution’ with CBRS bountry

From tractor maker to network operator; should we be surprised Deere & Company, in charge of the John Deere machinery brand, has snapped up five mid-band CBRS licenses in five counties in the US? Not really; not at all, even. It has a reputation...

PTC White Paper: Enterprise Augmented Reality Meets a Market in Need of Solutions

A resilient workforce is critical for overcoming today's business challenges. Few solutions exist that meet your most pressing business needs without requiring significant upfront investment or long implementation time. Augmented reality bucks that trend. Enterprise augmented reality solutions keep employees productive and safe while maintaining...

Deloitte to build robot-powered smart factory at Wichita State

Deloitte and Wichita State University are building a new 60,000-square foot (5,500 square metre) smart factory showcase facility on Wichita State’s Innovation Campus, already sponsored by Deloitte, to include a full-scale production line, along with a partner space and lab facility. The new facility, dubbed...

Is 5G network slicing the missing link for widespread adoption of AR? (Reader Forum)

5G hype bounds with the number of networks being deployed and the network operators vying for customer eyes. While consumer growth is important, the network can provide more benefits than high-speed mobile broadband. One of the key use cases that operators and business users...

Verizon joins UK accelerator scheme to foster new 5G retail experiences

US carrier Verizon has joined with UK digital accelerator Digital Catapult to develop 5G solutions for retail. The pair will make use of Verizon’s new 5G Lab in London, opened in February, to offer startups a production house to test their 5G based innovations. Companies...

Five top 5G use cases for enterprises, according to Nokia

The 5G use cases span a number of different industry sectors After speaking with over 1,000 IT decision-makers at U.S. and U.K. enterprises, Nokia released a new study called “Mapping demand: The 5G opportunity in enterprise for communications service providers,” which revealed the top five...

Siemens buys AR/VR specialist Vizendo to boost Industry 4.0 ties with BMW, Ford et al

Siemens has acquired Swedish service and software company Vizendo, maker of augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) training solutions for automotive manufacturing. The deal sees it deepen its Industry 4.0 contracts with the likes of BMW, Daimler, and Ford, which it already serves...

Li-Fi fixes shortcomings of 5G for industrial IoT, says Industrial Internet Consortium

In research for a new report on industrial AR, Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Farid Bichareh, smart factory chair at the Industrial Internet Consortium and chief technology officer at research and engineering firm AASA (and also at subsidiary LiFi solution provider 01LightComm). Bichareh...

Qualcomm intros compatibility tests for tethered 5G XR headset-handset combos

Qualcomm has launched a certification programme for combining augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) devices and Snapdragon-based 5G smartphones. The programme will approve tethered AR and VR devices for use by enterprises, as well as consumers, within 12 months, it said. At the same...

Near, far, where-edge-er you are–The right edge for the right application

Edge computing is a broad term that, at a high-level simply means moving computing out of data centers and closer to where applications are running, but has specific qualities that pin what specific edge being referenced to the requirements of an application.  To understand where...

‘AR is more forgiving’ – HPE on connectivity and compute setups for industrial AR/VR

In research for a new report on industrial AR, Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Ian Henderson, chief technologist for manufacturing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to discuss the challenges with contemporary AR (and VR) setups in the industrial space. Here is the interview, in...

Augmented, virtual, mixed, extended – so many realities, so little meaning?

Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The report is available to download here.  What is the deal with all of these alternative realities? The industry has come up with...

Private 5G and edge AI will unlock ‘boundless XR’ for industry, says Qualcomm

Qualcomm has introduced the idea of extended reality (XR), combining and going beyond the disciplines of augmented (AR), virtual (VR), and even mixed (MR) reality technology. More than this, it is talking about 'boundless XR', which leverages industrial 5G and distributed AI, when powerful...

Digital Factory Solutions (report series): Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers

How augmented reality (AR) is transforming production and raising the influence of workers in the robot age.

Digital Factory Solutions Report series: Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers

Analytics and automation are helping to transform operations and processes in factories. But how do you change workers and working practices? Well, augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) can help.   By placing staff into virtual models / digital twins of production line tasks and...

How fast, how near, how private? The role of 5G and AI in industrial AR

Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The report is available to download here.  Let us start with the scenario the main article finishes (see report) with: a connected...

Industrial AR surges on COVID-19 demand for remote assistance – and free licences

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has put focus on various communications technologies, if only as an adjunct to disciplines like healthcare and government, and as a means to work and play in lockdown. As well as driving stay-at-home video traffic to services like Netflix and Zoom,...

The path forward for sub-7 GHz wide-area 5G technology

Wide-area 5G enhancements coming as signal processing and full-duplex technologies evolve More than 100 operators on six continents have deployed 5G networks, according to data compiled by Ookla. And, with 5G here now and already making an impact on consumers and businesses, the next step...