Binoculars are still used in control towers for everyday operations. Now, researchers from SESAR JU member, NLR - Netherlands Aerospace Centre, are investigating augmented reality goggles that will help controllers keep an augmented eye on airport traffic!
The researchers specifically looked at attention guidance strategies with an augmented reality device, the Microsoft HoloLens 2 (TM), inside an air traffic control tower environment for Schiphol Airport.
The augmented reality blends real-world images with computer-generated data in real-time so that visual information can be enhanced to improve the identification and tracking of aircraft (or vehicles) on and around the airport. In low visibility, synthetic vision can show digital georeferenced data that supplement the missing real vision (virtual reality).
How fascinating is that? We'll be keeping our own beady eyes on this story to see how augmented reality goggles works out!
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Keeping an augmented eye on the traffic - SESAR Joint Undertaking - Binoculars are still used in control towers for everyday operations. Now researchers from SESAR JU member, NLR, are investigating augmented reality goggles that will help controllers better manage airport traffic!
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