As part of the pilot project in cooperation with our partner WienEnergie, the newly developed possibilities of UBIK Guide for Mixed Reality guidance within critical activities such as the activation of plant components in the Flötzersteig and Arsenal power plants were extensively tested. The video gives an insight into usages like content creation or handling in the plant with the HoloLens 2 (Trimble helmet variant).

About UBIK Guide

UBIK Guide is the new mixed reality tool developed by Augmensys, which guides the user through the entire work process and thus supports learning while working by means of holographic instructions. The instructions are individually adapted to the needs of the customer and are visually linked to the application location, which means that the employee can immediately see what work needs to be done at what time and in what location.

It was long in the works and trimmed to perfection by the whole team. Now it’s finally here, say hello to UBIK 4!
In the following we want to summarize the most important changes that come with this new and improved version.

BRIEF TECHNICAL OVERVIEW

• Improved kernel for all clients.
• Based on our Universal Client Foundation (nuget packages) for our own client developments, and committed to providing more support to our partners in doing the same.
• Most new features will be available across all our clients, or they will be designed in a way that they require lower effort to reach new clients/platforms.

FEATURES

Property direct editing:

• It’s now possible to directly edit most frequently used types of properties inline, instead of in additional dialogs.
• The previously limited MRO task direct editing (boolean) is now extended to these property types as well.
• Added more parameters to some property editing related commands for better customizability.
• Better edit session management to prevent editing being overwritten by background content updates in rare cases.

Developer mode improvements:

• Supports the inspections of collection item through indexers.
• Supports type browsing from custom pinned data contexts.
• Currently opened dialogs can also be inspected.
• Added a button in the XAML browser to unpack all default templates

Security related improvements:

• The app now informs the web service to terminate the user session upon logout or app closing.
• The app no longer allows self-signed server certificates.

Performance:

• Improved the performance of content filtering through XAML customizing.
• Improved the app performance when deleting large amount of data (which happens when e.g. evaluating online queries).
• To improve the AR performance and reduce power consumption, POSE FUSION is now turned off by default and can be enabled when necessary
• PDF annotations are now treated as regular content changes and can be automatically saved (when AUTO SAVE MODE is on) as a result.

THE NEW LOOK

Overall, the goal was to provide a greatly enhanced, out of the box user experience, with little to no additional customizing efforts.

• More unified page designs.
• Quality of life improvements such as the ease of access to context menus.
• Better grouping of similar context related actions, such as branch download.
• Better text descriptions, icons and localization.
• Most features in the old app’s top & bottom bars can now be used in customized UI.
• Optimized the search result UI to better distinguish current and previous results.
• And many others…

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More Information on UBIK 4

Siemens and Augmensys are deepening their collaboration in the field of mobile applications in an industrial context. In the future, the augmented reality solution UBIK will technically contribute to expand Siemens’ portfolio for process automation. 

After many years of cooperation and many successful projects, the relationship between Siemens and Augmensys has now been further expanded as a logical step and a comprehensive partnership agreement has been concluded.

In the first step, Siemens will present the COMOS Mobile Worker, a new solution for AR applications that will also use UBIK technology. For customers, this will open up completely new possibilities in the areas of mobile maintenance, commissioning or remote access by experts, among others. Siemens will market and distribute the “COMOS Mobile Worker” worldwide. This means that Siemens customers will be able to benefit from a robust, operating system-independent mobile application that can be used standalone or fully integrated, without media discontinuity, and will also be able to use innovations such as augmented reality immediately.

We are looking forward to a successful partnership and are firmly convinced that our customers will benefit even more from the now combined know-how and that the market position of both companies will be strengthened as a result.

On Tuesday, June 29, the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber honored the above-average commitment and success of domestic entrepreneurs abroad with the Export Award 2021 and our CEOS Helmut Guggenbichler and Jürgen Kneidinger were part of the Exporters`Night!

Augmensys was awarded the Export Award 2021 Bronze in the category “Information and Consulting” and we couldn’t be happier!

The Export Award of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber is given to companies that are particularly successful in foreign markets, so we are especially pleased that our efforts and hard work are also recognized in the international arena.

Many thanks at this point to the entire Augmensys team!

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