Cool Augmented Reality App for Fixing Cars

What's neat about this is that it essentially takes a skill, and packages it up, and allows anyone who can turn a wrench to do the same job with extremely minimal training.

Not enough Marines in the motor pool to fix all the broken trucks? No problem, augment them with some cooks.

So how do these systems work? Do the goggles have some sort of position measuring devices or do they work through image recognition of what's in the field?

Can anyone explain the importance of reducing overall head movement?

DIY, internet guided surgery here we come.

Seriously though, there seems to be some very interesting potential for this type of augmented reality.

This seems like is might be awkward for mechanics who were all ready good at the job.

neato. I did some work in his lab 10 years ago. Back then the AR getup looked something like the Ghostbusters backpack.

With these maintenance tasks seemingly pretty well-defined in terms of movements and actions with 3D objects in a 3D space, it doesn't take much imagination to see a suitably equipped robot could be doing this kind of thing pretty soon.