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Boeing was involved with industrial version of Google Glass, Microsoft is pushing Hololens heavily in that space as well - in fact you can buy Hololens integrated with safety hat - and there's explicit stuff to integrate with MS ERP stuff. Uptake seems to be mainly in high end civil engineering so far, but a lot of those solutions are things you are not going to read about outside a niche press.

I'll never be able to find a reference to it, but I distinctly remember AR goggles being used for aircraft maintenance 10-15 years ago, if not farther back than that. It's a very obvious application, and not a new one at all.

It cheers me to hear that. It’s such a natural high-value application. I’m surprised I haven’t seen articles about it in my geekspace.

This is the space that Microsoft's HoloLens and to a much lesser degree the prior Google Glass project stepped into.