A three-year, $12.5 million contract to design, develop, and transmit augmented reality tools to the U.S. Air Force in support of its use of extended reality resources for system maintenance has been given to the University of Dayton Research Institute.
The program’s main goal is to create various extended reality technologies to support Air Force operations like coating, spraying, and robotics control.
Through the use of specialized glasses worn by the user or an app accessed on a smartphone, augmented reality (AR) employs software to make digital things appear to be incorporated in a user’s physical environment.
“Consumers are accustomed to using augmented reality in online purchasing when they want to see how a bookcase or table might look in their own home room and in gaming apps like Pokémon Go. According to psychologist Drew Bowers, group head for human aspects in the sensor and software systems branch of UDRI, “We are expanding this technology to help users perform maintenance applications safely and effectively.”
In order to support manufacturing, maintenance, and other applications for a variety of clients, UDRI has extensive and continually expanding expertise in developing extended reality tools, including virtual and augmented reality. These tools also incorporate artificial intelligence, machine learning, and human-machine teaming technologies.
