Kognitiv Spark and HMS have announced a strategic partnership to elevate the level of support for remote workers with the HMS Singray G2, industrial augmented reality glasses connected to Kognitiv Spark’s mixed reality platform, RemoteSpark.
With the Singray G2, remote workers in the defence, energy and manufacturing sectors can call an expert through RemoteSpark, and the expert sees what the technician sees.
The expert can talk them through the job, mark up the equipment in front of them, and send over 3D models, manuals and schematics. The technician keeps both hands on the work.
"We've never been about the headset for its own sake. We're about the person wearing it," CEO of Kognitiv Spark, Yan Simard, said.
"Our customers do hard, critical work. They keep ships ready, energy flowing and production lines running. The G2 is built for the places our users actually work, and it lets us keep putting the expertise right in their hands."
RemoteSpark already runs on a range of devices, from Android smart glasses to laptops and phones. The G2 gives customers a fully standalone, stereoscopic 3D AR headset for true holographic work.
According to the companies, each capability maps to a real job-site need including kilohertz-level tracking keeps models and annotations fixed to the equipment, so the expert's arrow points to the right valve; high-resolution capture and depth sensing give the person on the other end of the call better information to work with; tracking runs on its own vision processor, which leaves headroom for detailed 3D models and live video in the same session; hot-swappable power means a long repair or a full inspection round doesn't stop for charging; IP65 sealing and bright Micro-OLED displays take mixed reality off the clean-room floor and onto decks, rigs and plant floors; and the G2 has been tested to IEC ratings 62368-1, 62471 and 60825-1, and has passed drop-ball and impact tests.
"HMS builds hardware for people who can't afford for it to quit halfway through a job," President and CEO of HMS, Zhencheng Hu, said.
"Kognitiv Spark has spent years earning the trust of Defence departments, utilities and manufacturers. Pairing the G2 with RemoteSpark means that trust now comes with glasses built to match it."