Augmented Reality Training: Benefits and Potential Use Cases

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Augmented Reality Training

Learning With Augmented Reality

For a broader reality for your trainees

Augmented Reality solutions allow learners to expand their reality through interactive images, texts, videos and digital 3D models on their smartphones. More precisely, AR is “superimposed” on the tangible world and thus enhances the user's real-life experience. According to a survey by the professional association ISACA , Augmented Reality users in five countries ranked AR as one of the three most important technologies for training and development.

What is AR Training?

Augmented Reality Training uses digital 3D models, guidance, and interactive content that are overlaid directly onto the real environment. This enables employees to learn in a practical, safe, and efficient way without the need for time-consuming in-person training.

Fundamentals of Augmented Reality Training

In augmented reality training, real work processes are combined with digital information. Learners receive step-by-step instructions, simulations, and visual aids that are displayed via smartphone or AR glasses. This makes complex processes immediately understandable and directly applicable.

Using Augmented Reality, employees can call up theoretical content learned with VR in practical application and access it seamlessly and selectively. This transition from the basics in VR to process optimization through AR allows employees to work with the same content.

This makes it all the more important that learning software allows for the integration of both VR and AR. We would be happy to tell you how we or our partners can support you.

Employees can learn together in one place and interact directly with their colleagues allowing to encourage a sense of unity and motivation.

With AR, trainers save on expensive 3D models and complex content environments if the real object is available and only needs to be expanded with instructions. In addition, once implemented, software and hardware can be reused at any time.

AR training opportunities have greater potential; even for experienced employees. After all, training is available on demand, so trainees can understand at their own pace how their work processes work and respond flexibly to challenges.

Employees can scan existing 2D images and superimpose 2D videos, texts, images or 3D objects over them.AR image targeting can support employees at work, enhance introductory training or optimize existing e-learning courses.

Employees can place a 3D model of any object on a surface and then rotate or disassemble it to identify the components, retrieve data or receive step-by-step instructions on how to repair or install the object.

Users place a 3D model of any object on a surface and can interact with the object and at the same time with actors or objects through networked learning processes.

Due to the smaller field of vision, users control the Augmented Reality through their line of sight, just like in real life. Ideally, users should carry out AR training in their glasses and not in their cell phone so that they can perform the activities hands-free.

In contrast to VR glasses, glasses for Augmented Reality are much more expensive and currently cost around €3,500 for the Hololens.

AR glasses are technically more complex and the technology is not yet as mature as their VR glasses counterparts.

Healthcare

VR Training Gesundheitssektor

Healthcare

In the operating room, overlays help to display the critical steps of an operation, patient data and additional patient information.

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Occupational Safety

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Occupational Safety

Prepare employees for processes and sources of error.

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Training 4.0

PKW Wartung mit 360 Grad und VR Training

Training 4.0

Personalize your vocational training.

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Onboarding

VR Labor-brandschutz

Onboarding

Train new employees faster and more cost-effectively.

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Maintenance And Repair

VR Wartung

Maintenance And Repair

AR technology can guide fitters during repairs, upgrades and maintenance work on products and machines.

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Emergency Training

AR Arbeitsschutz

Emergency Training

Thanks to AR, for example, the ability to react in dangerous situations such as power outages can be trained.

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Planning And Construction

Bauarbeiten

Planning And Construction

AR supports trainers in recreating hypothetical learning content in real environments and enhancing it with virtual cues.

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Marketing

Team Meeting

Marketing

AR concepts help employees and customers alike to get to know the products.

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VR Training Gesundheitssektor

Healthcare

In the operating room, overlays help to display the critical steps of an operation, patient data and additional patient information.

Discover more

360 Grad Training DEKRA

Occupational Safety

Prepare employees for processes and sources of error.

Read more in White Paper

PKW Wartung mit 360 Grad und VR Training

Training 4.0

Personalize your vocational training.

Read more in White Paper

VR Labor-brandschutz

Onboarding

Train new employees faster and more cost-effectively.

Discover more

VR Wartung

Maintenance And Repair

AR technology can guide fitters during repairs, upgrades and maintenance work on products and machines.

Discover more

AR Arbeitsschutz

Emergency Training

Thanks to AR, for example, the ability to react in dangerous situations such as power outages can be trained.

Discover more

Bauarbeiten

Planning And Construction

AR supports trainers in recreating hypothetical learning content in real environments and enhancing it with virtual cues.

Discover more

Team Meeting

Marketing

AR concepts help employees and customers alike to get to know the products.

Discover more

Virtual Companion

An easily configurable virtual companion guides participants through the training spatially, procedurally and narratively.

Multi-User Training

Allow several people to participate in the same training course via the Internet or together in a real classroom with their Augmented Reality glasses.

Asset & Training Export

Can be used and reused across multiple cloud instances.

LMS Integration

Every AR training program should be able to be integrated into a learning management system such as Workday, Cornerstone, Docebo or SAP SuccessFactors.

Input Data Processing

Software receives and analyzes data from the real world via the camera lens of the AR glasses, smartphone and sensors such as GPS.

Metadata, 3D Models and Media

Server query and on-demand loading of relevant comments and notes, 3D models and voiceover guides or instructional videos.

Live Transmission

Screencasts allow you to follow a learning scenario via notebook.

XYZ Level Detection

Automatic field of view scanner in the camera lens and evaluation as an image on an XYZ coordinate plane to overlay AR content correctly.

AR Training Costs

Many factors play a decisive role in the final price of an AR project, for example: Are only a few AR functions needed for a project or is a customized solution with complex functions required? Choosing the right AR software package for your project depends on the platform and features of your app.

Create Content Yourself

Software solutions such as 3spin Learning offer the use of AR training at low annual platform fees in the lower four-digit range. Learning content can be created in-house, keeping the additional costs of creation low.

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In order to coordinate the real and digital worlds, AR systems need to process data about their environment.

An image platform shows the contents.

The first mobile devices for AR were later followed by tablets.

Apple's Vision Pro, HoloLens, Meta2 and Magic Leap, for example, have become the focus of the increasingly fast-paced development scene due to their complex technologies and more extensive sensors.

Support With One Platform

We have been experts in Augmented Reality in learning for many years and help companies such as TÜV NORD, Pfizer and E.ON to introduce this technology quickly and easily. At 3spin Learning, we have developed a learning platform that requires no programming skills. Anyone can use it to digitize practical learning. Companies can work directly in the authoring tool, enabling anyone and everyone to digitize hands-on learning.

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Not only the content creation, but also the management, operational and distribution aspects of your immersion strategy must be taken into account. An authoring tool supports you in making any necessary adjustments and employees can download all training courses at the click of a mouse via cloud distribution.

Yes, we will present 3spin Learning to you free of charge as part of a personal demo appointment and you can also take part in a training session yourself if you are interested.

Protecting your data and your trust are very important to us. We have therefore implemented technical and organizational measures to ensure the security of processing, which we are continuously developing. The data hosting of 3spin Learning is based on Microsoft Azure.

Our learning platform is not limited to a certain number of learners.

Augmented Reality markers are visual reference points that are used by augmented reality systems to precisely position virtual content in the real world. They serve as anchor points where digital elements such as 3D models, texts or animations can be displayed via an AR-enabled device (e.g. smartphone, tablet or smart glasses).

Markerless AR is a form of Augmented Reality that does not require specific visual markers such as QR codes or images to place virtual content in the real world. Instead, markerless AR uses the environment itself – e.g. floors, walls or other physical surfaces – as anchor points for digital objects.

The technology for markerless AR is called SLAM, Simultaneous Localization And Mapping, and is usually implemented with ready-to-use software. SLAM-based AR solutions analyze the environment and capture visual data in the form of point clouds without the need for markers.

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