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Workers receive remote guidance through wearable AR

11/21/201111/21/2011 Julie Campbell

Yet another use for augmented reality has been discovered by a research team from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. This team of researchers has come up with an augmented reality guidance system that can provide new hires or inexperienced workers with remote guidance that can help to improve their performance in navigating challenging situations. The system is currently in a prototype stage of development, but it works by making it possible for a worker’s first-person perspective to be shared while within a difficult…

Head-mounted augmented reality device aimed at fieldworkers to launch in Japan

10/22/201110/22/2011 Stephen Vagus

NEC, a prestigious Japanese technology company, has launched a new headset that seeks to provide a new layer of information to fieldworkers. The device, called TeleScouter, is a lightweight pair of eye glasses that are connected to a compact computer that can fit into a person’s back pocket or worn on their belt. The glasses themselves are equipped with another device that paints the lenses with transparent digital imagery using augmented reality technology. NEC believes that the headset will help fieldworkers be more efficient in their duties as the device…

Toyota uses Japanese pop-icon Hatsune Miku to promote new 2011 Corolla

09/17/201109/17/2011 Stephen Vagus

Augmented reality has been growing in popularity in Japan recently. The nation is well known for its creative, and sometimes mind bending, use of technology. Augmented reality seems to fit well with the demands of consumers, especially when it can be used to bring one of Japan’s most beloved pop music idols to life. Toyota has developed a new augmented reality application that marks the partnership between the automaker’s Corolla brand and one of Japan’s leading music divas, Hatsune Miku. Dubbed “MikuScape,” the application can be used to see Miku…