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Re:Google Glass is getting a second life in the manufacturin... by deanclatworthy on Saturday March 18, 2017 @07:07PM (#13903977)
This is the second misconception I've read in this thread so far. I was at a conference in finland this year and a huge company called ABB was there with a holo lens demo. They had a hololens you could wear to see how to repair some mechanical unit. The hololens was able to recognise the unit from its previous mapping of the object and project AR on to it. They moved the unit and it still was able to almost instantaneously detect it.

The technology is here. It's ready. And it's already in use.

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Re:Google Glass is getting a second life in the manufacturin... by sillysaurus3 on Saturday March 18, 2017 @07:21PM (#13904030)
It's probably best to be skeptical of a demo.
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Re:Google Glass is getting a second life in the manufacturin... by IshKebab on Sunday March 19, 2017 @12:35PM (#13908061)
Perhaps but I've used both a Hololens and Google Glass, and the Hololens is light-years ahead. It is easily capable of the 'AR repair' application. Glass on the other hand was very 'meh'. The voice interface was horribly unreliable (think 2010-level speech recognition), and it is really just a convenient small display, not proper AR.
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Re:Google Glass is getting a second life in the manufacturin... by tim333 on Saturday March 18, 2017 @08:18PM (#13904287)
I tried a hololens in real life to measure the distance between bowling balls (English style bowls) and it worked really well superimposing an arrow between the balls with the distance.

For me it was more impressive than glass which when I tried it mainly had me wondering why the photos were so much fuzzier than you could take with you phone.

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Re:Google Glass is getting a second life in the manufacturin... by modeless on Saturday March 18, 2017 @07:13PM (#13903999)
Hololens can display 3D annotations that have been prearranged on a mostly static, previously mapped environment. It cannot map moving or non-rigid objects in dynamic environments and it cannot identify or track small objects that you are holding in your hands, unless maybe you stick giant fiducial markers on them.
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Re:Google Glass is getting a second life in the manufacturin... by doublerebel on Sunday March 19, 2017 @01:36PM (#13908480)
It can't do that on its own, but it's certainly possible to write an app for Hololens that does. I can't confirm writing such an app at this time.
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