Training

In training, if you think about how we do it, we train people in classrooms or use videos, or in all sorts of other traditional methods. But how does it actually help people with what to actually do if an attacker was coming towards them, or if a vehicle was traveling towards them?

Augmented Reality will allow us to really get the user – the person being trained – into an environment where they can learn how to react and what to do in real situations, but also in the real world. Not in a computer-generated simulation like VR, but in the real world. It is extremely powerful.

Situational Awareness

The second part of the training environment is situational awareness. For example, let’s say we’re trying to train a whole bunch of people to travel to another country. One of the things that overwhelm a lot of travelers is airports. What if, when they arrive at the airport, they can see exactly where to go and what to do or even who their driver is, all overlaid on their device?

It’s about removing all those elements of interference to help us perform that much better.

Of course there are so many more possible applications where AR can change the world of Travel Safety from giving real-time directions to show people how to get to a safe place in the case of a terror event or other major incident to checking the size of a piece of luggage to see if it will fit onboard the aircraft.

You can do all of this with Augmented Reality.

We can direct our people – live and in the moment – in hotels, in streets, in cities, to help them keep safe. If you don’t think Augmented Reality is going somewhere, you’ve just got to have a look at the people that are backing it.

People like Microsoft, with their Hololens, Apple with the ARKit, and a company called Meta are all investing billions and billions of pounds into AR. It truly is going to be the next generation.