Getting into the cab to start a new day on the site usually comes with a checklist. But the inside of the cab may one day be a nearly featureless shell, totally dormant until the operator activates his or her mixed-reality headset and logs into the system.
“The idea behind this is, an operator shows up for work in the morning and checks out a headset. He logs into that headset, and now that headset has all of his preferences, languages, setups and his coaching on what he needs for different tasks,” says Lonny Johnson, director of Caterpillar’s mixed-reality program.