Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology superimposing interactional virtual objects onto a real environment. Since the beginning of the millennium, AR technologies have shown rapid growth, with significant research publications in engineering and science. However, the civil infrastructure community has minimally implemented AR technologies to date. One of the challenges that civil engineers face when understanding and using AR is the lack of a classification of AR in the context of capabilities for civil infrastructure applications. Practitioners in civil infrastructure, like most engineering fields, prioritize understanding the level of maturity of a new technology before considering its adoption and field implementation. This paper compares the capabilities of sixteen AR Head-Mounted Devices (HMDs) available in the market since 2017, ranking them in terms of performance for civil infrastructure implementations. Finally, the authors recommend a development framework for practical AR interfaces with civil infrastructure and operations.
翻译:自本千年开始以来,AR技术显示出快速增长,在工程和科学领域发表了大量研究出版物;然而,迄今为止,民用基础设施界很少采用AR技术; 土木工程师在理解和使用AR技术时面临的挑战之一是,在民用基础设施应用能力方面缺乏AR的分类; 土木基础设施的从业人员,如同大多数工程领域一样,在考虑采用和实地实施新技术之前,优先了解新技术的成熟程度; 本文比较了2017年以来市场上现有的16个AR头摩托装置(HMDs)的能力,按执行民用基础设施的性能排列这些能力; 最后,作者建议为与民用基础设施和作业的实际AR接口制定一个发展框架。