Vital News & Blog

Over the past months, we’ve witnessed an unprecedented need to enable remote collaboration and field workers in essential roles. In response, we are thrilled to announce new capabilities to enable your teams to collaborate more efficiently even while being distributed.Vital version 6.1 will be released on Friday, September 25th 2020 at 4pm Pacific Time. Updating will be simple and seamless, and 6.1 is fully backward-compatible with the current version 6.0.7, so you can choose to update whenever it suits your team.

https://www.diamandis.com/blog/augmented-reality-whitepaper-part-3

Vital Enterprises CEO Ash Eldritch is cited by X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis in this excellent summary of how four emerging technologies are converging to blur the boundaries between our digital and physical worlds, and deliver radically more powerful digital tools.

Note: this has been republished from the Runway.is blog article titled “Vital Enterprises: Providing Augmented Reality Superpowers to Industrial Manufacturing” by Sandra Miller

Powerful software meets cutting-edge hardware to deliver Augmented Reality to industrial workforces.

Get a brief overview of what’s driving adoption of Augmented Reality by the manufacturing industry and watch a live demo by Vital CEO Ash Eldritch in this article from Western Digital.

Speaking at Bloomberg Live’s The Value of Data event on September 13th in New York, Bloomberg Businessweek’s Features Editor, Max Chafkin, discusses how industries are putting Augmented Reality to work with Vital Enterprises CEO, Ash Eldritch.

Vital has announced the release of version 5.0 of its flagship Augmented Reality software platform for industrial workforces, and a new name - EnVision.

“Across the U.S., where blue collar work is more prominent, the state of AR isn’t a pipe dream—it’s already fully functional. Manual laborers, especially those who work in manufacturing and out in the field, are utilizing the technology and improving their company’s bottom line.“

Last week, we had the honor to participate in one of the nation’s most exciting competitions for innovation and automotive manufacturing - The MBUSI Innovation Challenge - run by Mercedes-Benz U.S. 

There are 150 million people in the American workforce. By 2025 it is predicted that 14.4 million of these people will be wearing smart glasses in the workplace (Forrester.com). Despite the marginal success of Google Glass, that means that we’ll be seeing more smart devices in the hands and on the heads of employees around the world.

The concept of augmented reality has been around since the early 90s. However, its availability to the public has been fairly recent. The concept is simple;  augmented reality lets you place computer-generated images or information on top of what you see in real-time as it is viewed through the lens of a wearable device or on the screen of a smartphone, tablet or computer.

We’re excited to announce that SCM, a technological world leader in processing wood, is rolling out smart technology powered by Vital Enterprises. Integration of Vital’s software for smart glasses into the workplace will streamline many of the day-to-day operations overseen by SCM’s clients worldwide.

In the last decade, it has been nearly impossible to keep up with the fast-paced growth of technology used in day to day life. As of 2017, 2.32 billion people used smartphones worldwide. Further projections estimate that 36% of the world’s population will use a smartphone by 2018. With the supersonic advancement of this technology, including smartphones, tablets, fitness trackers, cameras, and wearables, we are eager to learn what’s next?

https://www.themanufacturer.com/articles/ai-to-form-backbone-of-industry-4-0/

“We don’t see this as replacing the expertise of engineering and production operations, it’s more about augmenting this capability with tools to help do their job even better,” Graham Cox of IBM explains.

https://www.photonics.com/a62539/Wearables_for_Work

Vital Enterprises co-founder and CEO Ash Eldritch was quoted in this recent Photonics Spectra feature story about Wearables in the Workplace. 

https://www.engineering.com/AdvancedManufacturing/ArticleID/14904/What-Can-Augmented-Reality-Do-for-Manufacturing.aspx

Vital Enterprises quoted in ENGINEERING.com article: “Your work instructions tend to be these PDFs that are hard to work through, plus they’re static documents, so they may be out of date,” commented Ash Eldritch, CEO and co-founder of Vital Enterprises, a developer of augmented reality software. “We take those instructions and make them glanceable in your field of view at all times, hands-free and voice-controlled,” Eldritch continued. “So we break down the work instructions along with associated technical drawings and even video from the last person who did the procedure and put all that onto the [AR] glasses. That means you can keep your hands on your task and you don’t need to walk over to a work station to check something.”

https://www.inc.com/epson/five-essential-technologies-for-businesses-of-all-sizes.html

Inc. Magazine #AugmentedReality is on the list, because of the potential to “transforming how people work and unlocking the potential of the human capital assets on companies’ balance sheets”. #superpowers for engineers!

Software Platform to Provide Technicians With Point-of-Work Instructions, Collaboration and Documentation Capabilities on Industry-Leading Smart Glasses From ODG and Google

Survey Conducted by the Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) in Partnership With Vital Enterprises Reflects Benefits of Smart Glasses for Enterprise Use