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This paper describes the development of a HoloLens application for experimenting the ability to collaboratively monitor flight tests by a shared holographic-like tabletop approach. The situational awareness arising from a high sense of presence deriving from the glasses-based holographic representation of the flying scenario leads to effective decision making. Moreover, the optical see-through MR approach to in-site collaboration makes inter-person communication as easy as in the reality. Finally, the shared holographic representation virtually recreated in the in-between space among participants promises a visually coherent basis for “look here” collaboration style.
A flexible architecture is proposed for this application separating the core app from the data feeds for a slimmer development-deployment process, and technologies and data source to be used for the realization are reviewed.
Finally, the paper reports the results of experimental use of the system collected in a couple of flight tests held in our Center, and allows readers to draw a perspective pathway to future MR developments.
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The activity described in the present work has been partially supported by the PRORA UAV National research program. In particular, the experimental activity has been carried out by flight test campaigns held in the second half of 2019 in the airspace around the Capua airport, based on the FLARE flight testbed. The authors wish to acknowledge Pier Paolo de Matteis, Attilio Rispoli and all the FLARE team at CIRA for their technical and management support.
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Sikorski, B., Leoncini, P., Luongo, C. (2020). A Glasses-Based Holographic Tabletop for Collaborative Monitoring of Aerial Missions. In: De Paolis, L., Bourdot, P. (eds) Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics. AVR 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12242. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58465-8_26
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