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MRO TREN
No More an Illusion
Virtual and augmented reality technologies have matured considerably over the
past 12-18 months
By Arun Sivasankaran in Florida
WITH THE INdUSTRY IN TRANSITION matured considerably over the past 12-18
and moving inexorably towards becoming months,” Higgins told Global Business Press.
leaner and more modern, the buzz around “VR is very much mainstream and is being
new technologies like virtual reality (VR) adopted by major corporations today as an
and augmented reality (AR) has piqued the effective way to train and test competence,
interest of many players in the aviation including the MRO industry. We see the airline
maintenance industry. Early birds such and aerospace industries as one of the top
as Lufthansa Technik and Air France markets for adopting VR.” More companies
Industries KLM Engine & Maintenance have have started engaging innovation teams
experimented with the new technologies to investigate the best ways to integrate
and benefitted from them, but most augmented reality into MRO, Higgins said.
companies have chosen to wait and watch, “We believe 2017 will be the year when AR
at least for now. That, however, is set to becomes mainstream due to the level of
Virtual Reality (VR) highlights the change, according to Vincent Higgins, CEO interest and early adoption we are already
enormous potential of what is a and founder of Houston-basedOptech4D, seeing.”
new viewing format that offers an a company that has made a name for itself It was at the 2016 MRO Americas show
unmatched immersive experience by providing visualization simulator and that the technologies, and the potential for
and its strong uptake in the
commercial electronics industry location-based technologies.”Virtual and its implementations in civil aviation MRO,
will quickly drive down costs augmented reality technologies have really came into the limelight. “Our booth
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