Scope AR, an enterprise-class augmented reality solution provider, today announced the launch of WorkLink Create, a new web-based application for quickly creating and sharing AR content within the workplace.

WorkLink Create will allow aerospace, medical device and industrial professionals to quickly prototype their own augmented reality content without coding knowledge or 3D modeling experience. That’s intended to lower barriers and expand the audience for creators and open up whole new horizons and opportunities for the use of AR across these industries.

“We set out to make the creation of 3D AR content as fast and easy as recording iMovie or creating a PowerPoint,” said Scott Montgomerie, chief executive of Scope AR. “Using our technology platform, any user can easily author their specific knowledge into WorkLink to be widely consumed for training, complex assembly, and field service troubleshooting.”

WorkLink Create transforms AR authorship by using browsers natively to make it more accessible across more devices and it also accepts a wide range of computer-aided design file formats.

Users of all experience levels can hop onto WorkLink Create in their browser and upload engineering model files and input them into mixed-reality scenes. That can be useful for jobs that involve working with expensive components or extremely large or complex moving parts.

There’s nothing quite like being able to set a wind turbine right atop a desk, crowding around it and watching it spin, without everyone being sliced to ribbons. All the team needs to do is don headsets and then watch it twirl as virtual wind sweeps through the room. Or the team can have an airplane engine break into its component parts with a sweep of a hand so that its intricate innards can be examined by walking through it.

All this is the power of augmented reality and possible with an authoring platform using engineering models imported into a platform such as WorkLink Create.

WorkLink takes its cues from an industry that grows from an audience of both engineers and artists who are used to using their hands, eyes and minds to get work done. Users can animate annotated work instructions in a familiar drag-and-drop, code-free workflow environment similar to other consumer editing applications.

In one use case, Lockheed Martin Corp. has already used Scope AR’s technology in the Orion program to help build the next manned spacecraft and give humanity a leg up to the stars.

“In the past, we would have developers spend months developing these types of applications,” said Shelley Peterson, associate fellow at Lockheed Martin. “With Scope AR’s WorkLink platform, we’re bringing this down to 28 minutes, and 4 minutes for an additional panel. The ramp-up time on the platform has also been reduced significantly. We can bring in a new developer, have them go through a half-day training online and they can start creating work instructions.”

WorkLink Create is now generally available and Scope AR has details published on its website about the platform.

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