An exciting new reality
Extended Reality (XR) technologies hold great promise for Atlas Copco Group’s products and processes. XR Group leader Wes Tomer and some pioneering colleagues explain how this helps customers and colleagues.
They once belonged to the realms of computer games and science fiction, but Extended Reality technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are transforming industrial processes and products.
Atlas Copco Group is already on-board, with XR projects underway in all corners of our business (see four case studies below) and an XR Group that involves 150 people across all four Business Areas.
“XR offers a powerful and versatile way of interacting with 3D models of our products, to explore them and to enable collaboration between experts and those who are learning,” explains Wes Tomer, Extended Reality Program Manager for Semiconductor divisions in Vacuum Technique. Wes is educating people about the technology and how it can add business value to Atlas Copco Group and our customers.
AR and VR are well suited to our digitalized workplaces. Augmented Reality overlays 3D digital holograms of products within the user’s real-world context, while Virtual Reality immerses the user in the 3D environment. Among other things, this means interactive training on complex tools and processes, and quicker, more convenient ways to meet people virtually and solve product users’ problems.
