Wikitude partners with Atheer to bring AR to “deskless professionals”

Andy Gstoll

At Europe’s largest AR and VR event, Augmented World Expo 2016, Wikitude announced its partnership with Atheer, pioneer of AiR™ (Augmented interactive Reality) computing, designed to enhance the productivity and safety of “deskless professionals”.

This is a significant step on Wikitude’s initiative to boost the Internet of Things with powerful augmented reality tools for the industry 4.0. The integration of Wikitude’s AR in the Atheer AiR Suite™ is being publicly unveiled for the first time at AWE Europe in Berlin, Tuesday and Wednesday, October 18-19, at the Wikitude booth (B6).

“Wikitude is a unique and highly-valued partner for Atheer,” says Ryan Fink, VP, Business Development of Atheer. “It’s difficult for enterprises to drive real returns from just one or two software tools; it takes a lot of custom development to do so. However, with AiR Suite’s integration with Wikitude we’re able to provide Enterprises with an out-of-the-box remote collaboration solution, with enhanced AR capabilities, for the most difficult steps in their taskflows. Now, this functionality is all in one place and easily deployable on AiR Glasses and other industry leading glasses via AiR Suite.

Wikitude’s AR capabilities can also be enabled on Atheer’s AiR Glasses™. Powered by Atheer’s AiR Gestures,™ users get the powerful combination of familiar touchscreen-like gesturing with the Wikitude image recognition and tracking, for example. And because AiR Glasses™ run the standard Android operating system, it’s easier for more developers to build custom applications that leverage both AiR Gestures™ and Wikitude capabilities.

“Since Wikitude’s approach is to build and provide augmented reality technology for a variety of different industries, this partnership makes perfect sense,” says Andy Gstoll, Wikitude’s CMO. “Atheer’s AiR Glasses and AiR Suite platform allow for a partnership on two levels; integrating our technology on both Atheer’s hardware and software platforms.”

Full press release is available at Atheer’s website.