Editing Augmented reality (section)

===Workplace===
In a research project, AR was used to facilitate collaboration among distributed team members via conferences with local and virtual participants. AR tasks included brainstorming and discussion meetings utilizing common visualization via touch screen tables, interactive digital whiteboards, shared design spaces and distributed control rooms.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hog3d.net/ |title=Hand of God |author1=Stafford, Aaron |author2=Piekarski, Wayne |author3=Thomas, Bruce H. |access-date=18 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091207022651/http://www.hog3d.net/ |archive-date=7 December 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Benford |first1=Steve |last2=Greenhalgh |first2=Chris |last3=Reynard |first3=Gail |last4=Brown |first4=Chris |last5=Koleva |first5=Boriana |s2cid=672378 |title=Understanding and constructing shared spaces with mixed-reality boundaries |journal=ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction |date=1 September 1998 |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=185–223 |doi=10.1145/292834.292836 }}</ref><ref>[http://mi-lab.org/projects/office-of-tomorrow/ Office of Tomorrow] ''Media Interaction Lab''.</ref>

In industrial environments, augmented reality is proving to have a substantial impact with use cases emerging across all aspect of the product lifecycle, starting from product design and new product introduction (NPI) to manufacturing to service and maintenance, to material handling and distribution. For example, labels were displayed on parts of a system to clarify operating instructions for a mechanic performing maintenance on a system.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110511082745/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/big-idea/14/augmented-reality-pg1 The big idea:Augmented Reality]. Ngm.nationalgeographic.com (15 May 2012). Retrieved 9 June 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://graphics.cs.columbia.edu/projects/armar/ |title=Augmented Reality for Maintenance and Repair (ARMAR) |author1=Henderson, Steve |author2=Feiner, Steven |access-date=6 January 2010 |archive-date=6 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100306202422/http://graphics.cs.columbia.edu/projects/armar/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Assembly lines benefited from the usage of AR. In addition to Boeing, BMW and Volkswagen were known for incorporating this technology into assembly lines for monitoring process improvements.<ref>Sandgren, Jeffrey. [http://brandtechnews.net/tag/augmented-reality/ The Augmented Eye of the Beholder] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621054848/http://brandtechnews.net/tag/augmented-reality/ |date=21 June 2013 }}, ''BrandTech News'' 8 January 2011.</ref><ref>Cameron, Chris. [http://www.slideshare.net/readwriteweb/augmented-reality-for-marketers-and-developers-analysis-of-the-leaders-the-challenges-and-the-future Augmented Reality for Marketers and Developers], ''ReadWriteWeb''.</ref><ref>Dillow, Clay [http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-09/bmw-developing-augmented-reality-help-mechanics BMW Augmented Reality Glasses Help Average Joes Make Repairs], ''Popular Science'' September 2009.</ref> Big machines are difficult to maintain because of their multiple layers or structures. AR permits people to look through the machine as if with an x-ray, pointing them to the problem right away.<ref>King, Rachael. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120704074014/http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2009-11-03/augmented-reality-goes-mobilebusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice Augmented Reality Goes Mobile], ''Bloomberg Business Week Technology'' 3 November 2009.</ref>

As AR technology has progressed, the impact of AR in enterprise has grown. In the ''Harvard Business Review'', Magid Abraham and Marco Annunziata discussed how AR devices are now being used to "boost workers' productivity on an array of tasks the first time they're used, even without prior training".<ref name="Abraham-2017">{{Cite journal|url=https://hbr.org/2017/03/augmented-reality-is-already-improving-worker-performance|title=Augmented Reality Is Already Improving Worker Performance|last1=Abraham|first1=Magid|last2=Annunziata|first2=Marco|date=13 March 2017|journal=[[Harvard Business Review]]|access-date=13 January 2019}}</ref> They contend that "these technologies increase productivity by making workers more skilled and efficient, and thus have the potential to yield both more economic growth and better jobs".<ref name="Abraham-2017" />