Three Groundbreaking Uses For Augmented Reality And The Lucyd Lens Smartglasses

While it’s obvious that augmented and virtual reality are the mediums of the future, it still has not become clear how exactly they will be used in everyday life. Aside from Pokemon Go, there is no augmented reality experience that has been widely adopted by users.

At Lucyd, our goal is to change this. When we look at the potential of augmented reality, we “get it.” And while Pokemon Go is a great way to have fun and get mild exercise simultaneously, we envision an AR experience that is tied into our very existence. Much like businesses grind to a halt when their computer system goes down, AR technology will be woven into nearly every activity we engage in over the course of a day.

Let’s examine a few of the specific uses of augmented reality:

Manufacturing

When you walk outside your house, you probably see lots of cars parked on the street. Over the course of a given day, it’s likely that you don’t give much thought to how they got there.

Before being purchased from a lot somewhere, they were produced in a factory full of engineers. These engineers must rely on their memory, the knowledge of a more seasoned employee, or a technical manual to know how to do their job.

In the future, it’s likely that this won’t be the case at all.

For example, imagine if all a person had to do to fix their engine problems was put on a pair of smartglasses, load an open-source program for engine repair and get to work. An augmented reality overlay would be projected onto the engine, analyze any discrepancies between how it should look vs how it looks in the manual, and then give clear instructions to the user on howto fix the problem.

This is a simplified example, but the point is that people would be able to take a greater role in maintaining their own products. The DIY culture has benefited significantly from things like 3d printers, but with augmented reality instructional programs the maker culture would be taken to a whole new level.

For enterprise-level companies that require expensive specialized machinery to create their products, engineers would be able to diagnose and fix mechanical issues much faster with the help of augmented reality. All they have to do is take a look at the overlay and follow the instructions.

Military

Most people would agree that having a military is important. And what use is the military if they’re not fully prepared for any potential threat?

One of the problems with training new recruits is that there is no substitute for live combat. For obvious reasons, it’s not practical to endanger soldiers’ lives to acclimate them to life-threatening situations.

But what if there was a way to simulate live combat?

Two opposing groups of soldiers could don their modified smartglasses, take their positions and execute the exercise as if it was real. While this still not the same as live combat, studies have shown that human beings have a hard time differentiating what they imagine to be real from what is actually real. This is why you see some people fall on their face when they play a virtual reality game that has them climbing the side of a mountain.

Another potential benefit to the military would be enabling soldiers to utilize navigation tools without having to hold a GPS in their hands. By displaying a map visible only to the wearer of the smartglasses, commanders would be able to direct their troops without having to take their eyes off the field of battle.

This would also come in handy for aiming weapons systems. With the ability to survey the field of battle in 360 degrees, unit commanders would effectively have “eyes in the back of their head,” improving the likelihood of success in battle.

Shopping

With online shopping slowly eroding away at the brick and mortar retail market, it’s only a matter of time before augmented reality makes its impact as well.

These days, if you’re in a store and want to know an item’s price, you have to go through the laborious steps of finding the price tag and looking at it. Sometimes this can take up to several seconds. Who has that kind of time?

Not only that, but any purchase over $20 is likely to warrant a bit of internet research as well. Googling every different brand and product online can be a chore. And while sifting through reviews might be easier on sites like Amazon, augmented reality provides a better way.

Imagine that you’re in the same store, but this time all you have to do is be wearing your smartglasses, perform a specific hand movement or use a voice command, and a plethora of product information pops up on a digital overlay. Your phone never has to leave your pocket and you can make your decision faster than ever.

And remember, these are only three of the millions of potential uses for augmented reality! Here at Lucyd, we believe that the only thing that’s missing is a substantial piece of hardware and app development ecosystem to push this industry forward. Our Lucyd Lens smartglasses will be released in Q1 and we already have the partnerships to succeed where Google Glass and Snapchat’s Spectacles failed.

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