HAITHAM ALAINIAugmented Reality: Why It Will Be a Huge Game Changer This Year

VirtualRealityvs.AugmentedReality

• VirtualrealityorVRisacomputersimulatedenvironment.Auserwearsa

headsetthatultimatelytakesthemtoanotherworld. Samsungrecently

released aVRheadsetthattakesusersanywhereinthegamingworld,atany

time.

• AugmentedrealityorARisslightlydifferentfromVR.ARallowsuserstosee

therealworldwithcomputergeneratedimages.AR’sabilitiestoalterthe

real-worldviewmakeitveryappealingforonboardingnewemployees.

HelpingYemen

ForYemen,specifically,thistrainingcouldbeusedinYemen’soilandgas

industries.ARtrainingallowspeopletotracktrainee’ssuccessandmeasure

theirtraininginanewway.UsingARfortrainingalsoallowscompaniesto

throwscenariosattraineesgivingthematrueunderstandingofhowtohandle

adangeroussituation.ARalsogivesemployerstheopportunitytoprovide

instructionthroughtheglasseswhileemployeesareperformingtasks.

CompaniesarealreadyimplementingitManycompaniesarealreadyrecognizingthevaluethistechnologycouldhaveontheir

training.Arecently publishedarticlefromForbesmagazine explainsthefutureofaugmented

realityintheworkspace.“NotonlydoesARopenthedoorsforlimitlesscreativityand

innovation,italsoenablesenterprisestospeedupthetrainingprocessandmakeitmore

beneficialtoemployees. “

NationalAeronauticsandSpaceAdministration(NASA)hasbeenusingthesoftwaretotrain

employeesforyears.Infact,NASA hasavirtualrealitylaboratory thatrecreatesthevacuumof

space,hereonEarth.Thisgivesastronautsthemostrealistictrainingbeforedoingthereal

thing.

Brian Ballard, CEO and founder of AR company, APX Labs told

Canadian Business, “You’re giving an entire new class of workforce

— that could be five or 10 times of (the number of people) you have

people sitting at a desk — access to information,” says Ballard, who

previously worked on augmented-reality product development for the

military. “That’s fundamentally revolutionary.”

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