Transitioning mixed reality (MR) pilots into essential deployments requires strategic planning and leadership. As organizations move beyond successful pilot projects, they must scale MR solutions across operations effectively. This article provides actionable insights into building on pilot successes, forming a dedicated MR scale team, strategic deployment planning, and maintaining a scale logbook to track progress and ensure alignment with organizational goals.

Before a use case can be selected, a pain point and its root cause must be identified. If you don’t already have an immediate problem in mind, take an inventory of specific pain points that impact your operations. Then, factoring in the root causes of these issues, identify the ones that could be solved using AR solutions. Look for process issues that impede the flow of operations.

The initial stage of MR usage in an industrial setting is using it as a communication tool, and the next stage is providing frontline workers with materials they need to complete tasks and gain on-the-job training. These uses in themselves can transform an organization’s operations, but this article will discuss more advanced uses. We’ll show how companies and organizations are running – in some cases sprinting – with mixed reality.

Explore how mixed reality (MR) goes beyond communication to enhance task support in remote and challenging environments. From enabling technicians atop communication towers in Colombia to collaborate seamlessly with experts worldwide, to providing hands-free access to critical information like holographic PDFs and 3D models, MR transforms how frontline workers perform tasks and receive support in real time.