Army, NPS Embrace Virtual and Augmented Reality
“The largest use has been in training. Maintenance is second — for example, goggles that allow a worker to have access to records and pictures of parts when he’s in the belly of an airplane.”
VR Lets Users Experience Historic Sites
Other agencies are turning to creative methods — and outside help — to develop AR/VR programs that enhance the customer experience.
The American Battle Monuments Commission created a smartphone app that allows people to take a virtual tour of the Normandy American Cemetery near Omaha Beach in northern France, the burial site for 9,387 Americans who died in the D-Day invasion. The app also gives tourists physically at the site more information about what they’re seeing.
The tiny agency, which maintains 26 cemeteries and 30 memorials around the world, outsourced production of the app, says Tim Nosal, ABMC chief of external affairs.
“The complexity of the technology is likely beyond the capability of most government agencies,” Ollig says. “We can give the public something they’ve never seen before when we find a partner who’s willing to work with us in a way that fits with our mission.”
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