Technologies from the field of “Virtual und Augmented Reality” (VR/AR) have become successfully established in numerous industrial application fields and found in various application areas. This development is mainly driven through current developments by smartphone and tablet systems, but also through modern head-mounted displays, facilitating complex 3D applications in mobile application scenarios.
The technologies of Fraunhofer IGD are scaled by cloud-based solutions all the way from smart-phone apps to various computing capacities, operating systems, and input and output options. The technologies are highly relevant in the context of “Industry 4.0”. VR/AR applications are developed for production planning, maintenance assistance, and the training of assembly steps.
Fraunhofer IGD’s instant3Dhub interactive 3D visualization platform and its VisionLib AR tracking technology will soon join forces. By combining the latest versions of these core technologies, users can, for the first time, run augmented reality applications in software-as-a-service (SaaS) infrastructure via the cloud. The laborious process of reducing large volumes of CAD data is therefore a thing of the past—and it is possible to exploit the full potential of native data. Additionally, the CAD data reside solely on the user organization’s own infrastructure: only the data required for the current visualization are transmitted in real time to mobile devices.
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