• How the HoloLens could facilitate issue investigation and 3D pipe design in industrial facilities

    Facility maintenance work may be repetitive: sets of instructions need to be executed on a regular basis, to ensure continued operation of the facility.  As explained in my previous post, an Augmented Reality (AR) tutor could help new employees familiarize themselves and complete the task, by teaching them how to proceed, on a step by step basis.  Experienced employees could also benefit from the tutor, using it as a check…

  • Using the HoloLens to facilitate plant maintenance

    We have been using the HoloLens for 8 months now, yet I am still amazed by the quality of the tracking it provides, enabling truly stable and quite robust hologram displays.  So far, many of the use cases that have been demonstrated for the device were showing holograms unrelated with their physical environment: whether they be building models, TV screens or Minecraft games, such holograms might be displayed on your coffee…