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I seriously wonder, do any of the folks with the “AR glasses to assist repair” thing ever actually repair anything, or do they get their ideas of how you repair stuff from computer games?

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12 points

I assume it’s the same dorks who say “ChatGPT is useful to summarize emails.”

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5 points

Isn’t that one of the enterprise cases where it’s actually been used?

Having schematics directly overlayed onto something I’m working on seems pretty helpful to me.

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have you ever done any kind of fine-detail repair on anything? electronics, something with tiny screws, fixing paint on a decal… anything like that?

minority report floating holograms sure might be useful for this, “random-ass non specialised hardware shoved on your face” is decidedly more of a diceroll

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I think he means repairs like washing machines, cars etc. It’s all very well looking up videos or pics of how to repair stuff, but often the video isn’t clear or fine quality enough

An overlaid graphic on whatever you were repairing would be fucking amazing for some of the stuff I do

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Yes?

Having shit clearly labeled would be incredibly helpful.

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6 points

Well the OP talks about a fridge.

I think if anything it’s even worse for tiny things with tiny screws.

What kind of floating hologram is there gonna be that’s of any use, for something that has no schematic and the closest you have to a repair manual is some guy filming themselves taking apart some related product once?

It looks cool in a movie because it’s a 20 second clip in which one connector gets plugged, and tens of person hours were spent on it by very talented people who know how to set up a scene that looks good and not just visually noisy.

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Back when I was still on Reddit, I encountered a post saying that they are used in airplane maintenance. They might have specified that their experience was with the military or I might be misremembering that part.

I have no experience in this area and cannot vouch for the veracity of the claim, just wanted to let you know that I have seen something that supports your theory.

edit: Sentences make way more sense when you use the right word and not a completely incorrect one.

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4 points

I’m not sure it’s actually being used, beyond C suite wanting something cool to happen and pretending it did happen.

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3 points

I repair anything I can and I think the AR assistance sounds awesome. Especially when its for something I’ve never tackled before… In fact for me personally, it sounds like its by far the best use case of AR

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6 points

on paper it sounds great (as I’ve already alluded to in a previous comment). as always, the devil is in the details. and I’d bet cold hard money on this being oversold/overhyped bullshit, once again

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8 points

getting normal manuals detailed enough to be useful is hard enough, forget about manuals compatible with AR set of the month

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6 points

Exactly. It goes something like "remember when you were fixing a washing machine and you didn’t know what some part was and there was no good guide for fixing it, no schematic, no nothing? Wouldn’t it be awesome if 100x of the work that wasn’t put into making documentation was not put into making VR overlays?

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5 points

I think the fictional version sounds neat but I dread the actual version which will have ads floating around in my field of view.

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3 points

Maybe the AR could keep track of all the small fucking screws so that I don’t lose them…

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