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Carpenters try building houses with AR glasses
19 May 2022
Can you replace house blueprints on paper with AR glasses that provide building instructions directly in your field of vision? Researchers and students at University West are now investigating – in close collaboration with the wood industry – whether AR technology can facilitate and streamline industrial house production.
Interest in building houses using wood is growing, and at the same time, the wood construction industry is developing new, more efficient manufacturing methods. In the Tillverka i trä (Manufacture in wood) project, in which University West is one of several partners, the network of companies and researchers has inventoried the wood industry's challenges and needs for new technology. AR technology, augmented reality, is one of several technologies that the parties are now looking at in various research projects.
Doctoral student Nicole Tobiskovà runs a project in which AR glasses are tried by operators building wooden trusses.
‘This is a student project where students have been working with our industrial partner for almost six months to create a solution that will support operators in their assembling work,’ says Nicole Tobiskovà.
One of the wooden truss operators who has tried installing with AR glasses is Tony Ringqvist:
‘You get a clearer picture of what the wooden truss looks like, and where the plinths end up. You can control it directly with your bare hands much more smoothly.’
More about the project Tillverka i trä