Just went to an Steel industry conference a month ago and a company is working on augmented reality to train new workers. Basically you can set-up a virtual pump on a table and the program walks you through step by step on how to do different maintenance jobs on the pump like changing the oil.
The idea is to use this as training and then in the field as reference. The big thing from stopping this currently is how will this effect safety in the workplace (distracted and not paying attention to what's going on in the real world in front of them and walking in a hole) and price.
This was the first year where we used Virtual Reality on how to put out a fire using a fire extinguisher in our yearly safety training.
The guys at the training also said that China devices is really putting pressure on the likes of Microsoft and other "western" companies to drive down the prices as China is making them glasses cheaper and cheaper.
Great points. Wal-Mart bought 17,000 VR units to train employees on. They claim it helped with retention.
I can see the pricing pressure coming from the East....it usually does.
That is why I mentioned the 5 years time frame....while I focused upon the pace of technology, we also need to see prices drop in many of the different areas.
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