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Augmented reality

Augmented reality earns its place when it answers a question a screen can't. Standing on a site and seeing what is going to be built there. Seeing a product in the room at its real size. Being shown the next step on the equipment in front of you.

Our technology founder is UBC trained in augmented reality and in C++, and has delivered an extensive augmented reality engagement for the Royal Family of Bahrain.

01 / The problem

Most corporate AR is a demo no one opens twice.

The field has a credibility problem and it earned it. Most corporate AR is a novelty built for one trade show, admired once, and never opened again. It answers no question, replaces no process, and quietly vanishes from the budget the following year.

The ones that last all have the same thing in common. They are attached to real data and a real decision. A site record. A model. A product configuration. A procedure someone has to get right the first time. The phone or the tablet is only the display.

We build the data layer for a living. Augmented reality is the last three feet of it. Which is also why we'll tell you when a drawing, a report or a two minute video does the job better and costs a fraction.

02 / What we do

Everything this covers.

Installations and experiences

  • Permanent AR installations for spaces people walk into
  • Visitor centres, showrooms, galleries, sales centres and exhibitions
  • Event experiences designed to be reused instead of binned afterwards
  • Physical space and digital layer designed together instead of bolted on
  • Hardware specified, sourced and installed, instead of left as your problem

Site and project visualisation

  • Stand on the site and see what is going to be built there, at full scale
  • Plans, models and survey data overlaid on the real terrain
  • Design options compared in place instead of argued over a drawing
  • Built on the same site documentation and models we already produce
  • What is underground shown where it is

Product visualisation and configuration

  • See a product in the room, at its real size, before it's built or shipped
  • Configurators where the options are your real options, correctly priced
  • Scale and fit answered before the order instead of after the delivery
  • Large or bespoke items that a photograph can't honestly represent

Guided work and training

  • The next step shown on the equipment in front of the person doing it
  • Procedures overlaid on real machinery instead of read from a binder
  • Inspection and maintenance prompts tied to the exact component
  • Consistent instruction for crews spread across regions
  • Progress tracked the same way as the rest of our training programs

Digital site records

  • A site or asset captured once and viewable in place afterwards
  • Measurements, history and documents attached to the thing itself
  • Updated from the same source as your operational data, so it doesn't drift
  • Someone on site seeing what the last visit recorded, without phoning the office

The parts no one budgets for

  • Content your team can update without rebuilding the whole thing
  • Hardware staging, maintenance and a plan for when a unit fails
  • Handover, so a content change doesn't require us
  • An honest answer about whether AR is the right answer at all
Unity · C++ · ArcGIS Pro · Photogrammetry and site capture · AR hardware
03 / How it works

The order we do it in.

01

Find the question

Augmented reality is a display technology, not a strategy. If a drawing, a report or a short video answers the question better, we say so and you keep the money. That conversation costs nothing and saves some people a great deal.

02

Build the data underneath

An AR experience is only ever as good as the capture, the model or the record behind it. This is the part most vendors skip, and it's the part we do anyway for every other service on this site.

03

Design the space and the layer together

Where people stand, what they're holding, how long they will give it, and what happens when two of them arrive at once. A great experience designed for the wrong room fails in the room.

04

Install and hand over

Hardware specified and installed, content structured so your team can change it, and documentation for whoever inherits it.

04 / Fit

Who this is for.

A good fit

  • Companies selling something large, expensive, bespoke or not yet built
  • Visitor centres, showrooms, galleries and sales offices
  • Projects whose stakeholders can't get to the site
  • Operations guiding crews through procedures on real equipment
  • Anyone whose sites or assets are already documented and modelled
  • Organisations who want a permanent installation instead of a trade show demo
05 / Questions

What people ask about this.

Is this worth it, or is it a gimmick?
Both exist, and the difference is whether it's attached to a real decision. An installation that helps someone choose, understand or carry out something earns its cost quickly. One built because the technology is impressive doesn't, and we'll tell you which one you're asking for before you spend anything. That's a much cheaper conversation to have at the start.
What hardware do people need?
Usually the phone or tablet already in their hand, or a fixed installation in a space you control. That's deliberate. The moment an experience depends on specialist hardware, it depends on someone charging it, updating it and finding it, and most installations die there. We specify hardware to the job instead of to the demo.
Who maintains it after you leave?
You do, and it's built that way. Content is structured so your team can update it without a rebuild, hardware is specified with replacements and failures in mind, and it's handed over documented. An installation no one can update is out of date within a year, which is how most of them quietly end.
06 / Related

The work next door.

These almost always come up together. An audit that finds a process problem usually finds a data problem underneath it.

Start here

Start with the audit.

Every business is different, so we scope the audit that way. We spend time inside your operation and watch the work actually happen. You get a written map of every valley, what it costs you a year, and what it would take to flatten it. That document is yours whether or not we build anything.

Emailadaignault@peaksnvalleysconsulting.com
Phone(250) 423-9511
FoundersKamila Domanska · Alex Daignault
Based inNelson, British Columbia
ServingCanada and the United States