Scenario description:

AR and VR can create more immersive experiences for people at work in order to make their job safer, by providing new ways to be aware of possible hazards and receive more effective, engaging and entertaining training on safety procedures. This is to alert and prevent serious accidents provoked by the co-occurrences of different causes, which can be avoided by conscious collaboration. With VR/AR headsets, workers will be able, for example, to better understand difficult-to-grasp concepts or topics such as protocols and procedures for safety and security. It offers a great opportunity for industry to be able to make use of a variety of different options relying on extended reality experiences to provide each worker with an immersive access to relevant information, and to encourage the adoption of safer behaviours. Extended reality encompassing virtual, augmented, and mixed reality brings immersive experiences to workers no matter where they are. A XR experience can “come alive” when a worker puts on a VR headset and walks, for instance, on a shop floor. Workers can experience hard-to-conceptualise current-day topics through extended reality, such as moving around in potentially dangerous environments. XR technology will improve effectiveness and user engagement. Through an adequate design of XR contents, immersive experience seamlessly integrates several principles not present when using non-immersive contents such as better contextualization and real-time decision-making feedback, in a safe yet realistic environment for practice. The Holo-Light’s software Engineering Space AR 3S, which allows workers to visualise and work with design files including CAD in an XR environment, will be optimised and upgraded to encourage social interaction among workers to also provide them with alerts and indications about the possibility of incidents. Correct and incorrect behaviour will be simulated. Overall, it will enable designing, prototyping, quality assurance, and overall technical industrial training and education in emerging manufacturing technology scenarios also with the opportunity to not just increase the speed in acquiring new tasks or to improve industrial processes but overall, also increasing the safety for workers dealing with complex machines. Features that will be exploited in the scenario include: ● High Quality 3D Content in XR: To securely import and view all your design files for AM in XR. Visualize and manipulate even data-intensive 3D content. ● Merge the Real and Virtual: Place your CAD/engineering designs in the real world. Manipulate projected assemblies directly at their envisaged destination. ● Work on Complex Holograms: Fully manipulate your designs and assemblies. Place, rotate, adjust, resize, slice and dice. Save your work. ● Share the Experience: Collaborate with your colleagues, partners, or customers in AR. Set up local and global meetings in an XR environment.