If you had the same Iron Man armor, what would you use it for? Summon Jarvis or himself to save the universe. Lenovo's answer is to make industry smarter and lighter.
When Iron Man's monster-fighting equipment in science fiction movies is constantly upgraded, humans are also iterating on technology in the real world to make life and production smarter. On June 28, Lenovo released the Lenovo Morningstar G2 light at the 2023 MWC Shanghai Mobile World Congress, a hardcore tool that can be worn to enter the industrial metaverse.
MWC Shanghai staff display Lenovo Morningstar G2 light AR glasses
Lenovo Morningstar G2 light is a new generation of lightweight portable AR glasses, mainly used in industrial visualization management, digital manual/maintenance guide, remote collaboration, inspection/workflow, practical training, wireless screen projection and other scenarios.
Under the current trend of digitalization in the industrial field, many trivial but important links such as inspection, remote training, practical training, and display, are supported by intelligent industrial equipment management tools such as Morningstar G2 light, which not only improves efficiency, but also reduces operating costs.
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Lightweight and endurance
The "smart assistant" for industrial plant management
In the mainland, there are many enterprises with "first-class" equipment, but there are very few enterprises that realize that the management mode is "backward", especially when human resources are limited, equipment operation and maintenance problems and equipment data precipitation problems caused by improper daily management frequently appear. Lenovo Morningstar AR glasses can be called the nemesis of the above problems.
G2 light combines the two major capabilities of AR and AI, binocular 1080p stereoscopic display light machine, and 9-axis sensor fusion algorithm, which can help the wearer automatically identify the scene and supplement the knowledge gap while extending the horizon.
Industrial production lines are often equipped with expensive precision instruments, which require professional staff to carry out equipment management and maintenance, and the threshold is high. G2 light's scenario-based AI detection and recognition algorithm enables users to identify targets and prompt relevant information after wearing AR glasses. Scenarios such as factory park inspections, exhibitions, and AR manuals can trigger virtual prompt information based on their recognition functions.
In other words, you can get a schematic diagram of the relevant data in the screen by wearing glasses during inspection, which reduces the threshold of normalized inspection work. Scenarios that used to require professional operation by experts can now be conducted remotely with glasses. More importantly, G2 light's high-precision AI detection and recognition algorithm has a response speed of milliseconds and can be customized according to specific needs.
The convenience of intelligence is not limited to this, Lenovo Morningstar G2 light is used as a tool for device management, and the daily management content is directly connected to the mobile phone, and the standard data-based content avoids the lack of data caused by individual differentiated records.
G2 light supports connecting USB-C DP capable Android mobile phones, PCs and Apple mobile phones, plug and play while supporting screen projection, basically no device connection barriers. In addition, in order to make the display of precipitated data more diverse, G2 light has comprehensively upgraded the pre-installed applications, designed the Xingbao to display and identify virtual information scenes and display interactive capabilities, updated the holographic player and instant recording tool for taking photos and videos, added a 3D browser that can browse the web and use web-based development applications, and Morningstar Remote Collaboration and Morningstar Interactive Display have also been comprehensively upgraded.
Considering the lighting conditions of industrial scenes, G2 light is equipped with a light machine with 50% transmittance and a display of up to 2000nit, which can ensure a clear picture in indoor and dark light environments.
It is worth mentioning that compared with AR glasses on the market, the G2 light weighs the same as ordinary myopia glasses, lightweight but does not lose clarity and endurance, so as not to sacrifice the comfort of the wearing experience, while ensuring that the shooting picture is stable and clear. This is because it uses device-side IMU data, combined with cloud AI stabilization algorithms, to achieve low-power consumption, low latency, large angle rotation adaptability of first-view video stabilization, with 8 million pixel autofocus camera, easy to deal with the jitter caused by video recording.
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Lenovo Morningstar AR glasses
Cutting-edge technology casting "industrial helper"
Industrial equipment management is an important link in industrial production, which affects the productivity and long-term development of enterprises. The loss caused by the unequal equipment productivity and management mode is often due to small mistakes, so it is more necessary for senior and dedicated industry practitioners to provide solutions.
Lenovo itself is the deepest high-tech manufacturing enterprise in China, Lenovo Morningstar AR glasses have also been deeply engaged in the field of industrial manufacturing since their birth, and continue to combine cutting-edge technologies to improve digital capabilities. At a time when the underlying technologies required for the metaverse such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence are rapidly maturing, Lenovo uses the combination of AR+AI to reduce costs and increase efficiency for enterprises.
Lenovo Morningstar AR glasses have long clarified the tone of independent research and development, in terms of AI recognition, relying on the technical precipitation of Lenovo Shanghai Research Institute for many years, and constantly optimizing the computing platform, from algorithm model training, reasoning and application, Lenovo Morningstar has explored a set of effective AI methodologies to provide algorithm capability guarantee for demanding head-mounted AR devices.
Since 2017, Lenovo has successively launched G1, G2, NewG2, NewG2 Pro, to G2 light, Lenovo Morningstar Daystar series AR glasses have been iterated to the sixth generation. In this process, Lenovo has always adhered to high standards of quality control.
Taking G2 light as an example, it has undergone 60+ reliability tests, 1.7M free drop test, 96 hours of continuous salt spray at 35°C for 96 hours, 100 cycles of 25KG silicone pressure test, 1KG, 1000 data line bending test, 10000 shaft opening and closing life test, 10000 data line and temple opening and closing test, 10000 data line Type-C interface plugging test, 100,000 key life test, etc., and finally evolved into " The strongest industrial equipment management helper".
Lenovo Morningstar AR glasses high-end product NewG2 Pro, is the current domestic AR glasses performance and application leader, its high-performance SLAM algorithm and high-precision depth sensor support spatial positioning, environmental recognition, three-dimensional environment reconstruction, in the way of virtual and real integration to create many benchmark cases.
For example, Morningstar AR glasses have helped the manufacture of large domestic aircraft. In the process of large aircraft manufacturing, workers wear AR glasses and quickly locate specific holes under the guidance of AR intelligent solutions, and the workload that originally took three people to complete in two hours can now be completed in 20 minutes by one person. In the production line of the Ningde Times Hudong factory, workers use Lenovo Morningstar AR glasses for remote assistance to improve work efficiency.
In the process of manufacturing domestic large aircraft, AR glasses guide workers to complete the wire plugging work
In the production line of the Hudong factory in Ningde times, workers use Lenovo Morningstar AR glasses to achieve remote assistance
As the "entrance" to the metaverse, AR wearable devices have revolutionized people's understanding of spatial perception and interaction, and also broken the shackles of the original 2D world. Lenovo Morningstar AR glasses are a microcosm of Lenovo's industrial metaverse ecology and full-stack services, driven by the strategy of intelligent transformation, Lenovo will continue to accumulate and precipitate, providing strong momentum for industrial intelligent transformation and upgrading.