With the boom of smart devices, the pace of aug­ment­ed real­i­ty (AR) and vir­tu­al real­i­ty (VR) tech­nolo­gies is grow­ing rapid­ly. The enter­prise poten­tial con­tin­ues to grow as util­i­ties explore prac­ti­cal use cas­es, and these efforts increas­ing­ly inter­sect with oppor­tu­ni­ties made pos­si­ble by Inter­net of Things (IoT) tech­nol­o­gy such as sen­sors and con­nect­ed devices that help build a more inte­grat­ed and extend­ed util­i­ty landscape.

As the util­i­ty indus­try con­tin­ues to incor­po­rate inno­v­a­tive dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies, deploy­ing AR and VR is help­ing to trans­form train­ing, main­te­nance, and field oper­a­tions. These emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies are quick­ly becom­ing more main­stream, and this indus­try pan­el ses­sion will review prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tions that over­come some of the chal­lenges util­i­ties face in bring­ing it into field operations.

The ses­sion will include cov­er­age of safe­ly putting vir­tu­al assets into work­ers’ real-world situation/​surroundings with­out dis­tract­ing from poten­tial haz­ards, pro­vid­ing remote assis­tance for new/​less expe­ri­enced work­ers through real-time vir­tu­al access to an expe­ri­enced advi­sor, visu­al­iz­ing out­stand­ing work and site haz­ards and tak­ing maps from 2D to 3D to bet­ter inter­pret data and pro­vide faster access to impor­tant information.

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