Assisted reality on the rise
The combination of edge computing and smart glasses has potential. Where is assisted reality already being used in production today, what scenarios are conceivable and what is important when it comes to implementation?
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The combination of edge computing and smart glasses has potential. Where is assisted reality already being used in production today, what scenarios are conceivable and what is important when it comes to implementation?
IT is increasingly finding its way into the industrial world. But open source software in particular still needs to establish itself. An appeal to the old economy's will to change.
Google is the number 1 in web searches and develops the most widely used smartphone OS, Android. In competition with rivals such as Apple, the company's products are set to become smarter. It recently announced a pair of glasses that display live translations as subtitles during conversations.
Flexible, adaptable, dynamic and digital - tomorrow's production technology should be all of these things. The software-defined manufacturing research project aims to turn this vision into reality for the vehicle and supplier industry.

PTC announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Intland Software for approximately USD 280 million. Intland develops and markets the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software family Codebeamer.

Change at the top of PerfectPattern, a provider of AI solutions specifically for the manufacturing industry: Asdrúbal Pichardo has been CEO of the Munich-based company since the beginning of April.
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The XR industry - VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality) and MR (Mixed Reality) - will usher in a new Moore's Law, Philip Song from Huawei is certain of this. He explained what he means by this at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

SAP CEO Christian Klein recently announced his intention to turn Europe's largest software group into one of the largest cloud companies in the world in the long term. However, he is also dependent on the support of the large IT groups in the USA.