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The problem with ar is that it’s promise isn’t improved quality of life for white collar workers, but increased productivity from the skilled labor pool by allowing a carrot and stick approach of huds with condensed centuries of experiential information and an unprecedented level of tracking.
The goal is to make it easier to slap anyone into a position that would currently provide a decent wage by giving them a computer that says “described symptoms indicate probable seal failure” & highlights the bolts to take out in robocop dick shoota vision and then beeps insistently when they’re on smoke break too long.
But they need to develop the technology first, and white collar workers are willing to buy and use the thing but can’t provide the kind of feedback that developers are looking for.
TFW you know the seal is fine and you can obviously see the cracked housing is leaking, but your face-computer makes you waste 15 minutes fixing the wrong thing. And then it complains you're the one wasting time when your break is 45 seconds longer than the legal minimum.
I see AR being used a lot in manufacturing, and mechanic roles in particular. Boeing, for example, uses Hololens with it's mechanics to simulate airplane repairs.
Microsoft is really the only company targeting AR at the blue-collar worker, while most of the other AR companies target those white-collar workers.
There’s a lot of bad stuff you can say about Microsoft, but you can say “this is where you need to be, it it’s not gonna turn a profit for a decade.” And they have a better chance of recognizing the wisdom than many other big tech companies.
Fantastic long term vision hobbled by awful short and medium term thinking and an unwillingness to abandon existing userbases.
Maybe it does dox me... we are using AR for power plant related tasks with some components for which we have service contracts with a third party and the manufacturers. Really does increase productivity quite a bit, still in most cases the people 30 years on the job and who know the machines well after decades on them can deal with most, too. However not always and there are a couple of them who do not actually have a mental model of the machinery and they could profit from that, too.
Tools can emancipate us, or be pressures on wages and the labour class. The question is who controls them, how they are used and in most countries also what kind of policies alter their usage.
I'm not sure if Boeing is a great example of doing good aircraft repair work right now. Maybe they should take the fucking VR googles off.
They kinda are tho. None of the current issues were caused by improper repairs, and Boeing's mechanics do a fairly good job. Most of the issues either stem from corner cutting in design or shoddy manufacturing. Spirit AeroSystems is the company that made the door and fuselage assembly in the most recent issue. They were originally part of Boeing, but in 2005 were sold to an investment firm.