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Immersive Mixed Reality: Moving Automation
Technologies to the Cloud
Cloud platforms provide
performance and
scalability.
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Mountain View, CA
There are many industries where
manufacturing continues to be the
backbone of the economy, where companies that produce products and
goods used by both businesses and consumers have found a way to push forward during the COVID-19 pandemic.
None have been more prominent than
the medical technology community,
where automation technologies are
increasingly used to design and create
critical devices used by physicians and
health organizations.
Even though manufacturing has continued throughout 2020, it is showing
signs of a slight slowdown in a year highlighted by great economic challenges.
According to a recent report in Reuters,
The Institute for Supply Management
(ISM) said that its index of national factory activity fell to a reading of 55.4 in
September, down slightly from 56 in
August.1 Despite the slowdown, September marked the fourth straight month of
growth, and it compares to an August
figure that was the highest level dating
back to November 2018. A reading
above 50 indicates expansion in manufacturing, which accounts for 11.3 percent of the U.S. economy.

Medtech manufacturers should be
cautious in how they design and deploy
these technologies, because there is
great difference in the platform they are
built on and maximized for use. Even
though technologies like AR/VR have
been in use for several years, many
medtech manufacturers have deployed

virtual solutions that are built upon an
on-premises environment, where all the
technology data is stored locally. This
buildout was more common a few years
ago and was considered the de facto
platform for this type of technology. Onpremises AR/VR infrastructures limit
the speed and scalability needed for

■ Technology Helped Manufacturers
Push Forward in 2020
Technology has helped medtech manufacturers maintain factory output
despite the challenges posed by COVID19. One technology in particular is the
suite of immersive mixed reality (MR)
technologies, which are best described
as a fully immersive experience that
brings virtual objects into the real world
or one that blends the physical world
with the digital one.
MR technologies, including augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality
(VR) are poised to grow considerably
over the next few years. In fact, more
manufacturers are leveraging this technology as the AR market is expected to
reach $70 billion-$75 billion in revenue by 2023.2
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