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AUTOMATION “Most of the OpenAR project’s technology demonstrations so far have focused on situational awareness support through points-of-interest display systems showing vessels and other information over the real world.” – Professor Kjetil Nordby, Oslo School of

Architecture and Design

Render of AR overlay on the bridge wing using a head mounted AR interface. Render bu Jon

Fauske, copyright Oslo

School of Architecture and design.

Render of how AR overlay changes as a ship sails into port.

Render of head mounted AR interfaces (left side) versus screen based AR interface (right side).

Renders by Jon Fauske, copyright Oslo School of Architecture and design.

such as buoys, boats and ships to provide details of their posi- visualization of the vessel situation from a shore side facility.” tion in low visibility conditions. The company is now devel- But, he continues: “We are at a stage of AR development right oping an automatic or assisted docking system. now in which many tools are being created, many of which are

Additionally, says Matt Wood, National Sales manager for good. However, there is no standardization in these displays.

Furuno USA Inc., the company has participated in several semi We cannot and should not remove the mariner from the equa- manned and autonomous voyages within Japan. “One of the tion, but we need a way to present them with the best possible likeliest scenarios in the near future is that the human crew on information in as easy to recognize a way as possible.” board vessels will be augmented by both machine learning and Furuno is participating in the OpenBridge project led by the 22 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • December 2024

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