Recently, the virtual reality industry recommendation conference released the white paper on industrial virtual (augmented) reality application scenarios (2019), which covers the development background, industrial analysis and application scenarios of VR / Ar + industry.

The white paper was jointly written by China Academy of information and communication, Qingdao Haier Industrial Intelligence Research Institute Co., Ltd., ZTE Co., Ltd., American parameter technology company, China Unicom Network Technology Research Institute, Tongji University, liangfengtai Information Technology Co., Ltd.

In the context of industrial intelligent upgrading, VR / AR has become one of the important innovation engines, and industry is also an important direction for the current VR / AR commercial landing. Among the enterprises participating in the white paper, Haier Intelligent Research Institute led the establishment of the first joint laboratory of virtual reality technology industrial application in China, taking Haier Internet factory as the practice base to promote the large-scale application of VR / AR and other related technologies in home appliances and manufacturing industry, which has been implemented in multiple intelligent Internet factories. Liangfengtai is the head enterprise in the field of AR in China, and also a strategic partner of Haier Intelligent Research Institute. It develops a variety of business application scenarios in the industrial field, providing AR technology and products for energy, automobile, home appliances, manufacturing and other enterprises. In addition, 5g, 3D software, sensors and other enterprises are also important components of the realization of industrial intelligence. The participating enterprises are based on their own research and development or application accumulation, I have written this white paper. If there is any omission in the content, please correct it.

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The following article is from the white paper, and focuses on the AR part.

As a new generation of human-computer interaction platform, virtual reality focuses on immersive experience, emphasizes the depth of user connection and interaction, and brings significant changes to the way of human understanding and transformation of the world. With the continuous development of technology and industrial ecology, the concept of virtual reality is evolving. The industry's research on virtual reality is no longer limited to specific terminal forms, but emphasizes the integration and innovation of key technologies, industrial ecology and application landing.

According to the definition of the Ministry of industry and information technology, virtual reality (VR / augmented reality, AR) refers to the products and services involved in constructing immersive experience of immersive experience of immersive experience of immersive experience and virtual reality with the help of near eye display, perceptual interaction, rendering. In a broad sense, virtual reality includes augmented reality, which is independent of each other in a narrow sense. This white paper uses a narrow definition and distinguishes between virtual reality and augmented reality. Virtual reality (VR) brings immersive experience through isolated audio and video content, and augmented reality (AR) emphasizes the seamless integration of virtual information and real environment.

Virtual reality involves many technical fields, which can be divided into five horizontal and two vertical technical architectures. "Five horizontals" refers to near eye display, perceptual interaction, network transmission, rendering processing and content production, "two verticals" refers to VR and AR, both of which are similar in technical system, and the technical implementation difficulty is higher than that of traditional intelligent terminals such as mobile phones, and the performance surplus of devices such as mobile phones in core areas such as chips and screens becomes the performance threshold of virtual reality.

Virtual reality industry has a long chain and many participants, mainly including content application, terminal device, network platform and content production.

Industry + virtual reality: great potential, wide application space and rapid development

Industry + virtual reality refers to the application of virtual reality in the demand analysis, overall design, process optimization, production and manufacturing, test experiment, use and maintenance of industrial production, so as to realize the intellectualization and integration of industrial product design manufacturing test maintenance.

The demand for intelligent upgrading of manufacturing industry is the fundamental driving force for the integration and development of industry and virtual reality. The technical system of virtual reality has been gradually improved to promote the rapid development of industry + virtual reality. The application scenarios of industry + virtual reality are evolving, mainly including product design, operation and maintenance inspection, remote cooperation, operation training and digital twin.

The United States, Europe, Japan and other industrial developed countries regard virtual reality technology as the key means of market competition in the future, and have formed integrated software platform and mature hardware products in the industrial field. China is also actively promoting the application of virtual reality technology in industry.

With the deepening application of virtual reality in vertical industry, the activity of industrial virtual reality is also increasing. According to the market feedback and technology development trend, it is expected that in the next 2-5 years, the industrial application of virtual reality will enter a fast-growing stage, the supply of effective products and solutions in the market will continue to enrich, covering the whole process of industrial manufacturing, management and service, becoming an important platform and basic support for the development of intelligent manufacturing.

According to greenlight's calculation, in 2019, the global AR / VR industry application market scale will exceed 400 million US dollars, with a year-on-year growth of 145%, of which the AR industry application market scale will exceed 300 million US dollars. It is estimated that the market size of AR / VR industry will reach US $3.36 billion in 2023, including US $2.85 billion in AR market. It is predicted that the global AR / VR industry application market scale will maintain a high-speed compound annual growth rate of 83.5% in 2018-2023, with AR occupying the dominant position and growing more significantly. From the perspective of industrial category, manufacturing, construction, automobile and energy account for an average of about 18% in current ar industrial applications.

  Industrial virtual reality technology is gradually mature, and enterprises will speed up the process of large-scale use.

Industry + virtual reality application: diverse scenarios, integrated into the process, fast landing

The white paper gives examples of various scenarios of industrial virtual reality technology application, covering different aspects such as AR remote collaboration, AR operation guidance, AR professional skills training, AR product display and instructions, AR management visualization, AR auxiliary equipment spot check, AR warehouse management, AR quality exception record, etc.

Ar remote collaboration supports one-to-one, one to many, many to many and other scenarios. You can also freely choose the type of terminal equipment (such as mobile phone, computer, tablet, AR glasses) to access the communication. Ar remote interaction, realizing remote audio and video connection, one button frozen screen, multi person call, real-time annotation, file transmission, electronic whiteboard, and whole process recording.

Specific application scenarios can be divided into three categories: expert support, operation supervision and real-world investigation

Workers in new foreign factories are confronted with technical problems such as equipment debugging and maintenance. They only need to wear ar glasses to connect with the headquarters. Technicians far away can guide them through audio and video, mark, mark and transmit documents on them, so as to help workers solve technical problems in real time. Let the overseas technical communication problems be solved easily, and record the whole process, * can eventually form a case base of technical problems.

Ar operation guidance is mainly to solve the contradiction between a large number of labor and increasing labor cost in the automated intelligent production process.

With the help of AR technology, the existing knowledge experience and skills of skilled workers in the enterprise can be solidified and become the action criterion and template. Through the environmental perception and object recognition technology of intelligent equipment, the experience and behavior of skilled workers can be reproduced in front of the novice, so that the novice can complete the task according to the visual "guidance operation", so that the intellectual assets can be reused and added value, and the experience gap can be filled.

By using AR technology guidance system, it can reduce the time for operators to consult data in the production process, form a data closed loop between product design, process design and field manufacturing through data interconnection between design and process, give operators real-time guidance and prompt, check the integrity of steps, reduce the risk of operation, and improve the efficiency of operation, Transparent and visual management throughout the process, so as to realize the change of field operation mode.

Ar operation guidance improves the operation efficiency in the complex process, and has a significant effect on improving the assembly accuracy of new employees with less experience. It also integrates the operation guidance and training to reduce the training difficulty and cost in an intuitive and easy to understand way.

In this application, operators wearing ar terminals can first understand the introduction and operation instructions of the core components, then view the decomposition instruction information synchronized with the operation equipment and operation steps in real time, and complete the necessary steps and equipment assembly in strict accordance with the process step by step. At the same time, the operation process is recorded synchronously, which is convenient for backtracking and management.

Ar product display and instruction have the unique advantage of what you see is what you get. It is a kind of instruction type that directly displays the product structure description, use description and other contents to the corresponding real position of the product through the combination of virtual and real through mobile phone or smart glasses, image or object recognition technology.

A car brand in Shanghai creates "car ar manual", which combines AR technology with electronic manual, assists in car marketing and sales, after-sales operation and maintenance, and connects with AR cloud platform and car networking system to improve customer service quality and efficiency. Users can scan the car through mobile app to directly view the function introduction, fault analysis, handling opinions and other contents of various parts and buttons.

AR management visualization does not need to hold additional devices to realize the management visualization of devices, personnel or materials in factories and parks. Through the identification of equipment, personnel and materials, to achieve the display and superposition of virtual data, large volume data will be transformed into information input type "story" that is easy to be accepted, processed and memorized by people, so that key and important information will be received by users in a short time and displayed directly in front of their eyes, and with the characteristics of smart glasses, a series of pain point problems will be solved in the way of combination of virtual and real. Specific application scenarios can be divided into five categories: production management, operation and maintenance inspection, experience inspection, personnel security and logistics storage.

In addition, the white paper also points out that the deployment process of VR / AR solutions in different application scenarios is roughly similar, consisting of scenario matching, hardware selection, platform selection, network testing, system testing, business testing and feedback iteration.

At present, intelligent manufacturing industry has become an important engine for countries to seize the strategic commanding point, domestic industrial transformation and upgrading, and economic development. As one of the technical pillars to assist the development of industry 4.0, virtual reality is applied to the demand analysis, overall design, process optimization, manufacturing, test experiment, use and maintenance of industrial production, so as to realize the intellectualization and integration of industrial product design manufacturing test maintenance. It is expected that in the next few years, the industrial application of virtual reality / augmented reality will enter a fast-growing stage, covering the whole process of industrial manufacturing, management and service, and become an important platform and basic support for the development of intelligent manufacturing.

About the bright wind table:

Liangfeng platform has the core technology of artificial intelligence such as computer vision, deep learning, intelligent interaction, etc. it independently develops the "cloud management end" integrated product platform hiarworkspace composed of AR cloud, AR communication and collaboration platform, and AR terminal, which takes root in the vertical market and builds ar workspace. It has provided services to nearly 1000 enterprises and institutions in various fields, and the top 10 enterprises in key industries have a coverage rate of 60% - 80%. At this stage, smart manufacturing is regarded as the key industry of bright wind table. The cooperative customers include famous enterprises such as Huawei, mobile, Haier, Gree Electric, China Tower, Xiaomi, Baidu, Jingdong, Tencent, Unicom, telecom, China Haitong, Phoenix Contact, Schneider, etc. In addition, we will work closely with operators to realize the commercial landing of "5g + Ar"