Publications

This report addresses the standardisation of Augmented Reality for improved situational awareness and survivability of combat vehicles. The report assesses requirements for AR from a operational, functional, technical and human interaction perspective. Human Factor considerations are core to ensuring that the AR based solutions can provide enhanced situational awareness, however as part of the study other aspects such as wider benefits, limitations, costs and technology maturity and performance have been considered. The requirement to fully integrate AR solutions as part of the platform systems is addressed with a specific focus on the exploitation of NATO Generic Vehicle Architecture (NGVA). Use cases are defined which provide the context and requirements for AR enabled information displays to different crew members at different phases of representative missions. An overview of standards and guidelines how AR should be presented and how interaction should be enabled is covered. The report gives an overview of conducted experiments, explorations and interviews considering AR for Situational Awareness. An outlook and roadmap of AR is proposed and the report concludes with exploitation and recommendations.