Manifest Maker version 2.0 debuts with new hardware, AI, and 3D model optimisation
XR Today — This week, Taqtile expanded its assistive reality work platform, Manifest Maker, with new features, including AI integrations, to improve its ability to display instructional AR visualisations. Â
The platform’s AR visualizations allow onsite frontline workers, such as repair crews, to leverage step-by-step instructional guides. The Manifest service displays these guides as spatially anchored assets that workers can interact with while undergoing a procedure.Â
John Tomizuka, the Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer at Taqtile, spoke on the Manifest version 2.0 update, adding:Â
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Supporting Apple Vision Pro and its game-changing spatial computing capabilities is going to make it easier to create superior work instructions that will make deskless employees more effective and more efficient. With the addition of AI and other technical enhancements, the new version of Manifest Maker is more powerful, simpler to use, and a more valuable option for industrial users.
New Hardware, genAI, and 3D Model Optimisation
The most recent version of Manifest Maker includes many new optimisations. Namely, the service is gaining new hardware optimizations for industrial users, bringing Manifest to the white-hot Apple Vision Pro, iPad, and iPhone.Â
Moreover, the new genAI features allow the platform to automatically create linear, procedural step-by-step guidance visualisations based on a pre-recorded video footage feed of workers performing procedures. The integration allows Maker’s AI to analyse clips of expert operators performing onsite procedures to create additional working learning content, therefore promoting skill sharing throughout an organisation.
Maker also improves the integration and utilization of detailed 3D models. Now, mentors can leverage 3D visualisations of training resources to enhance further upskilling initiatives, such as learning repair and maintenance procedures.  According to the firm, workers can take photos of industrial objects using an Apple device to turn those real-life objects into a 3D learning tool [digital twin]. Â
More on Manifest Maker
In 2022, Manifest introduced the Maker solution. This application allows experts to add insights and instructions to their recordings using accompanying videos, screenshots, images, auto-transcribed text, and scans of existing manuals to improve their training guides.
When on-site experts create their AR guides, they can distribute their work quickly using simple tools. Taqtile utilizes simple drag-and-drop pipeline tools, still image creation tools, auto-transcription features, automated dictation, and paper manual scanning to facilitate easy content creation.
Taqtile anticipates that users will utilize Manifest Maker to aid in operational, maintenance, and repair procedures, such as replacing failed components in industrial equipment or inspecting fleets of vehicles.
