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[Maik1969]

Hoch mit dem Teil!

[donkischotte]

Die Charts bei world-of-stocks von 1-5 Jahre sehen ja richtig klasse aus.
Entwickelt eine gute Dynamik hier.
Super Lauf!
Nicht zu schnell oder übertrieben.

[Erdbeer-Schorsch]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.722.932 von sundancer-ch am 08.09.14 15:35:40

Zitat von sundancer-ch: ah jetz check ich das, Danke schorsch ;-)

Stets zu Diensten....

[Erdbeer-Schorsch]

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Ein neuer Angriff....danach ist der Weg auf 4 USD frei

[sundancer-ch]

ah jetz check ich das, Danke schorsch ;-)

[Erdbeer-Schorsch]

SAP to release AR apps on Android Wear for smart glasses in the workplace
Apps are designed to help field technicians and warehouse workers


SAP this week will begin selling two workplace-related augmented reality apps for use with Android Wear smart glasses, including Google Glass, to aid warehouse workers and field service technicians.

Pricing hasn't been announced for the new apps, which are called SAP AR Warehouse Picker and SAP AR Service Technician. They will be sold generally in the Google Play store.

SAP released two separate videos showing how the apps can be used with Vuzix smart glasses to fulfill orders in a warehouse or to assist a field service technician making a repair call in a complex setting. In the second video, a repairman uses his smart glasses to locate a switching room in the basement of a sports stadium by using audible commands and navigation arrows that appear on the lens of the smart glasses (See video).


Both apps took as long as six months to build and have been used successfully in beta testing with various SAP customers.

The apps are primarily designed to improve workplace efficiency and enhance worker safety, since smart glasses keep a worker's hands free to complete tasks.

Beta testers have been most excited about having what's called "over-the-shoulder" instructions for field technicians that can be communicated live and wirelessly via video from a remote expert instructor to the technician doing the actual work, according to SAP. The video instructor can appear in the eyepiece of the smart glasses, along with 3D images of parts and textual instructions, while live audio can be heard in the earpiece.

With smart glasses running the apps, barcodes or other information can be scanned and sent wirelessly so it can be checked against information in databases for fulfilling orders or finishing repairs. Automated voice instructions can tell a warehouse worker which items to pick for an order, and the worker can respond with voice commands when the item has been picked.

"Both apps give mobile users added content and contextual elements to complete their jobs better," said Josh Waddell, vice president of the mobile innovation center at SAP, in an interview.

"Customers are very excited about these apps and we are too," Waddell said. "This is technology on the edge that's been in Gartner's technology 'trough of disillusionment' for years and is now about to emerge."

Specialized apps that run on older operating systems, such as Windows CE, have been around for a decade or longer to help military and other aircraft technicians make complex repairs when aboard planes. The emergence of Android Wear apps that rely on smart glasses is new, Waddell said.

The "over-the-shoulder" coaching capability of the service app is a "killer use case," Waddell said. He said it will be especially useful as a generation of service technicians retires and is replaced by younger workers who can be easily and quickly instructed in the field while doing repair tasks on complex systems of equipment. "This can help companies worried how they are going to train people coming on board," he said.

Waddell said beta testing of the apps was mostly done using the Vusix M100 or Kopin Golden-i smart glasses, but the apps will run on Google Glass and other devices.

As noted by some early Google Glass users, Waddell said some workers felt dizzy or had other mild side effects from using the devices for longer periods. "We worked through some of the user discomfort challenges and monocular vision in general will cause some people issues with dizziness," he said. "Once smart glasses are binocular that will help."

One thing that seems to help reduce discomfort is to have the monocular lens where images and words are displayed worn on a worker's stronger eye, which could be either the left or right.

Getting workers to use smart glasses isn't that difficult since many repair and warehouse jobs already require workers to wear safety glasses, he added.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2603680/sap-to-release-…

[Erdbeer-Schorsch]

Vuzix hat nur den Vertrieb abgegeben an Six-15 soweit ich weiß. Die Geräte werden weiterhin von Vuzix hergestellt. Six-15 hat ja auch die M100 im Programm. Zudem hat Vuzix ja Anfang 2014 das Preisgeld der US-Navy bekommen um einen Prototypen zu entwickeln

[sundancer-ch]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.721.696 von Erdbeer-Schorsch am 08.09.14 13:29:03

habs nur kurz überflogen, wollte Vuzix mit Militär doch eigentlich nichts mehr zutun haben oder ? Sie haben die Sparte doch abgestoßen oder bin ich da falsch gewickelt?

[Erdbeer-Schorsch]

Augmented Reality Can Better Inform Troops

September 2014

By Dan Parsons


U.S. troops have access to a mind-bending wealth of information during combat, from video taken by drones overhead to GPS positioning and satellite communications.

But soldiers on the ground often feel overwhelmed with too much information, and the need to look at a smartphone or wearable computer can be a distraction during a life-or-death firefight.

“When you are looking down at a tablet or smartphone … you are not aware of what is going on around you at that time and then [my] brain has to cognitively figure out what it is that I saw on my 2-D screen. Now I have to compare that to what’s going on in the real world. Once you look up, you still have to make that comparison,” Dave Roberts, senior scientist and leader of military operations and sensing systems at Applied Research Associates, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based engineering firm, tells National Defense.

The answer, according to engineers at ARA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is augmented reality — a system that overlays relevant information over a soldier’s field of vision in real time.

“By having all the information heads-up and geo-registered … I can be aware of what is going on and make quick decisions when there is a lot of uncertainty in the environment,” Roberts says.

Much attention has been paid to Google Glass, which provides information through a tiny screen that rests at the upper right corner of the wearer’s peripheral vision. It does not overlay information on the wearer’s view of the world and requires a shift in gaze, although slight, to read.

Glass basically miniaturizes a smartphone and moves it closer to a wearer’s eye. It is hands free, but a soldier still has to divert his attention from the enemy to access information, says Jenn Carter, a senior scientist with ARA.

ARA participated in a DARPA program to create “true augmented reality” that displays relevant tactical information within a soldier’s field of vision, rather than on a screen.

“What we mean is information that is displayed that is correctly positioned, geo-referenced and in the user’s immediate field of view,” Carter says. “A lot of the other systems that we have seen claim to produce augmented reality, like Google Glass, are really more of an information display. The idea is that a soldier might be able to take cover and still be able to see exactly what is around him.”

DARPA’s urban leader tactical response, awareness and visualization program, or ULTRA-Vis, resulted in ARC4, software that puts the wearer of a heads-up display into a real-world version of Google Maps street view.

The software pulls in information from high-level battlefield management systems at a tactical operations center, says Eric Wenger, another senior scientist with ARA. The information is then relayed to soldiers in the field. Both the center and the users have filtering options to prevent information overload.

It also produces a position report for each user, and displays their location on the displays of fellow squad members.

Without looking at a separate screen, a soldier can see icons marking preprogrammed waypoints, landmarks, other soldiers, vehicles and enemy positions. When the soldier turns his or her head, the system automatically displays all the relevant information for whatever environment is being viewed through a “light-weight, low-power holographic see-through display” with a “position and orientation tracking system,” controlled by the wearer’s vision, according to DARPA.

“Having the ability to understand where your teammates are at all times, even if they are not in your line of sight, if they are obstructed by buildings … without having to look down at a computer screen to view a map,” would be a revolutionary leap in battlefield situational awareness, Roberts says.

ARC4 was initially installed on BAE Systems’ Q-Warrior wearable computing system that was also a result of the ULTRA-Vis program. However, the software is display agnostic, essentially the processing engine that tracks where the user is and where he or she is looking with a high degree of accuracy. ARA scientists are farming it out to other augmented reality display manufacturers, Carter says.

The company is working with night vision goggle manufacturers to miniaturize the computational processor onto parts of a helmet, Roberts says.

Vuzix is testing the software on its M2000AR mobile display that uses a PC-compatible transparent optical system that overlays data on the wearer’s field of vision in full color. The helmet-mounted, see-through screen retails for $6,000.

The low-cost augmented reality system, or LARS, made by SA Photonics, places transparent monocles over each eye onto which information is projected from outside sources including icons and video imagery.

“As those displays keep getting better, you could see this incorporated into a pair of lightweight sunglasses,” she says. “This does not need to go in a traditional helmet. … We can integrate with any display that is out there.”

ARA is working with Six15 Technologies to incorporate ARC4 with its Wrap 1200DXAR augmented reality glasses. The system, which comprises a pair of high-definition cameras on the brow of a pair of wrap-around sunglasses with integrated displays, retails for $1,500.

Displaying relevant information accurately, in real time, as a soldier runs, jumps, dives and swivels his head has been difficult, Roberts says. It requires powerful data processing and extremely accurate measurements of a soldier’s position and orientation.

“The user is always moving around, their head is swinging rapidly, so we had to figure ways to keep the icons stable within the environment even during dynamic motion,” he says.

Most systems rely on GPS to identify a position and then use accelerometers, magnetometers and gyros to calculate new positions in relation to it. The ARC4 system also includes computer vision algorithms that are able to produce hyper-accurate orientation estimates, Roberts says.

The system can compare digital terrain elevation data to camera imagery of landmarks like mountains in the user’s field of view to pinpoint position and direction, Roberts says. Combining this and other methods of geolocation have made the ARC4 systems much more accurate than commercially available navigation software, he says.

ARA is developing another method, called celestial sensing, to calculate a wearer’s position relative to the sun.

“It’s the combination of all these different methods, when they are brought together in this sensor-fusion framework, that delivers a really robust solution over a wide operational space,” Roberts says.

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2014/Septembe…

[beppo7353]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.719.578 von Mark333 am 08.09.14 10:06:48

Vielen Dank für deine schnelle Antwort Mark
und danke Auch allen die dieses Forum immer wieder
mit sehr interessanten Artikeln füllen.Ich bin seit Januar dabei
und habe wie ihr alle schon oft gehofft dass der Deckel wegfliegt
Ich bin überzeugt davon dass wir noch viel Spass mit diese Aktie haben
werden