At NextSteps, NetDimensions’ global users conference, we heard from Amar Dhaliwhal, Senior Vice-President of Marketing and Product at leading Augmented Reality platform company, Atheer. He gave us a glimpse into the (near) future of AR for training.
mar spoke compellingly on the potential of augmented reality (AR) to transform how training is delivered, and shared his insights on best practice use of AR for training.
AR for training: How does it work?
First of all, you can’t really talk about AR without mentioning its close ‘relatives’: virtual reality and mixed reality. So here’s a quick rundown of these three closely-related technologies:
- Virtual reality, or VR, is an immersive, entirely virtual experience, most often accessed by using a headset. Flight simulators are a well-known use of VR in a training context, but the healthcare and defence sectors also use VR for training in high-risk situations.