Assisted repair: A United States Marine uses an augmented-reality headset to find and start a repair inside a light armored vehicle (top). The headset overlays text and illustrations on what he sees (bottom).
Credit: 2009, Steven Henderson and Steven Feiner, Columbia University
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Virtual Repair
Augmented reality helps mechanics fix vehicles.
Source: "Evaluating the Benefits of Augmented Reality for Task Localization in Maintenance of an Armored Personnel Carrier Turret"
Steven J. Henderson and Steven Feiner
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, October 19-22, 2009, Orlando, FL
Results: An "augmented reality" system developed by researchers at Columbia University helped mechanics with the United States Marines repair a light armored vehicle. Mechanics wearing the system's head-mounted displays were able to locate and begin each task in about half the time it would take to do so using a repair manual on a laptop computer, which is the conventional approach.
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