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Product Q&A: Virtual and augmented reality

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Virtual and augmented reality technologies are providing innovative industry solutions for design visualisation, training and maintenance. The Engineer asked a panel of experts about the latest trends, applications and developments.

 

Meet the experts

Jon Arnold, VP of sales EMEA, RealWear Inc

John Murray, senior product manager, Virtalis

Alex Karim, IoT and mixed reality specialist, Microsoft

Michael Lewis, digital theme lead, Sheffield University AMRC

Paul Haimes, VP European technical sales, PTC

 

What trends and requirements are driving developments in this area?

JA: Due to the new challenges forced upon companies by the pandemic, they have no appetite for technology that is unproven, they have a requirement for technology that is ready to use now, out-of-the-box.

The challenge for many companies is how fast they can equip their teams with assisted reality solutions to stay competitive, or to meet the demands of their customers. Much of this depends on whether the solutions can offer seamless integration with core enterprise applications and backend systems; for instance, Microsoft Teams or Zoom as collaboration platforms. Compatibility with these is essential.

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