Epson Moverio AR Glasses are Moving into the Enterprise

When DRONELIFE noticed the Epson Moverio augmented actuality glasses final yr, there was an extended line of fans at their sales space, all dying to strive them.  This yr, there’s nonetheless an extended line to take a look at the glasses – however a lot of them are speaking about enterprise functions.

The product is the results of a partnership between Epson and DJI.  The collaboration has taken the deep experience of each firms and created a product that goes effectively past leisure.  As an enterprise resolution, Epson Moverio glasses can present extra knowledge, extra security, extra consistency – and functions that we haven’t seen but.

One of the major features of Moverio FPV Eyewear, to provide them their full title, is to carry drone operation again to a single pilot use case as an alternative of getting a number of workers members handle a mission.  “The application takes the drone flying experience from looking up and down to just looking up,” says Michael Levya, Moverio’s Product Manager.

“What’s different with glasses than with a phone or tablet?  Your head is always up,” says Levya.  “When you are looking for a lot of information, you don’t want to be confined to a small screen.  With the sky as your screen, you are getting a lot more data in front of you – so you can get to that decision immediately.”

“The glasses mean that you can always see where the drone is,” Levya factors out.  “One custom application will allow you to see where it is all the time – it uses head tracking to adjust to where you’re looking.”

Looking up additionally implies that the drone operator will be frequently conscious of environment – an enormous asset to security.  “In public safety applications, asset inspections, infrastructure work… these can be dangerous places.  The glasses allow you to maintain awareness – they make the operator safer, more effective, and more productive.”

Levya says that growth into the business market simply is smart. “Epson is making a strategic push into the enterprise across our whole portfolio.  We want to offer full solutions to our customers.”

“We already provide services to so many enterprise customers – we want to offer these as an additional tool.”

The Moverio resolution is prepared to be used. “Enterprise has strict requirements – we get it,” says Levya.  ” They are able to scale.  But DJI was the final vet for us – we’ve labored laborious to get the product to the place we are each pleased with it.  It’s an enormous endorsement for us. ”

About the particular functions for enterprise, Levya says the prospects are countless. Any knowledge will be added to the visible panorama. “One thing that we are building now is a simulator – an augmented reality solution for training people safely without risking equipment,” he explains.  “You can train people with a controller, but put a virtual drone in the glasses.”

“We can make this purpose built for applications – It’s always extensible,” says Levya.

“We’re only scratching the surface.”