Cool Augmented Reality App for Fixing Cars

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by mishmax • 17 years ago

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pmorici• 17 years ago

This seems like is might be awkward for mechanics who were all ready good at the job.

lutorm2• 17 years ago

It seems to be aimed at military in-field repairs, though, in which case it probably makes sense.

jorsh• 17 years ago

even an experienced mechanic will tell you that you can never have too much reference material

knowing how a vehicle mechanically works is one thing, figuring out how a certain manufacturer implemented those mechanical principles is totally another

lutorm2• 17 years ago

So how do these systems work? Do the goggles have some sort of position measuring devices or do they work through image recognition of what's in the field?

sailormoon3• 17 years ago

It must be positional; image recognition would seem a little too good to be true.

Would be delighted to be contradicted, though!

jmah• 17 years ago

I've been looking into augmented reality technologies lately; vision systems are getting really good. There are some good ones here (click twice to load Flash videos, or download AVIs):

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~bob/research/research_ptamm.html

callahad• 17 years ago

Can anyone explain the importance of reducing overall head movement?

drhodes• 17 years ago

Maybe it's a rough indicator of how much looking is required to locate a part. Maybe it reduces the odds of cracking One's head on large metal objects.

sailormoon3• 17 years ago

With these maintenance tasks seemingly pretty well-defined in terms of movements and actions with 3D objects in a 3D space, it doesn't take much imagination to see a suitably equipped robot could be doing this kind of thing pretty soon.

RK• 17 years ago

DIY, internet guided surgery here we come.

Seriously though, there seems to be some very interesting potential for this type of augmented reality.

akc• 17 years ago

neato. I did some work in his lab 10 years ago. Back then the AR getup looked something like the Ghostbusters backpack.

elblanco• 17 years ago

What's neat about this is that it essentially takes a skill, and packages it up, and allows anyone who can turn a wrench to do the same job with extremely minimal training.

Not enough Marines in the motor pool to fix all the broken trucks? No problem, augment them with some cooks.

ippisl• 17 years ago

I wonder if with this and some other stuff( for example, diagnostics using car computer) , people could easily fix their car on their own?

Cool Augmented Reality App for Fixing Cars

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