Much of the industrial manufacturing industry is abuzz these days over reports that augmented reality (AR) capabilities will dramatically change how these companies develop, manufacture and service products.

To help move things along, UI LABS, an organization tasked with leveraging research and innovation platforms to transform industries, is...

Early this year, UI Labs launched an educational series focused on harnessing data to make American factories more efficient and competitive. (Lofty goal, huh?) The massive open online course (MOOC) curriculum includes 40 hours of instruction, assessments, peer interactions and a final project. Developed for both students and workers, the series...

Augmented reality isn’t just for Pokémon Go.

As AR technology matures, it’s increasingly being targeted at the energy and utilities market, as well as manufacturing and other industrial use cases.

Last week, UI Labs and the Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) announced the release of AR hardware and software functional requirements...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us. Yesterday’s factory architecture is being transformed away from the one-factory-per-company model toward neo–cottage industries set within a new industrial commons.

On the northern end of the former industrial district of Goose Island in Chicago, a steel bridge leads to a glowing warehouse. Passing...

To help guide the development of augmented reality (AR) technology to make it as relevant and applicable as possible for an array of industrial applications, UI Labs and The Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) have been working together to develop what they say is the world's first AR hardware and software functional requirements...