Artificial and Human Intelligence with Digital Twins
Traditional Smart
Monocle
Desktop
phone or AR
tablet Stereoscopic Fully
AR, including Immersive
mixed reality VR
(MR) devices
2D data visualization Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes
3D data visualization Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes
Yes Not
practical Yes, and
model
appears as
3D
Yes, and
model
appears
as 3D
No, but it
could
augment
a virtual
rendering
Augmenting a digital 3D
model of a physical asset Yes Augmenting a physical asset
with charts, heat map
overlay, etc. in physical
space Only if PC
is in the
physical
Yes
space with
the asset Yes Yes Heads up and hands free in
a physical environment No Yes Yes No
Yes Yes
Yes for some
products Yes for
some
products
No
3D rendering of a remote
asset Yes Yes
Eye and hand tracking Possible,
but not
typical Not
practical
or typical
Not
practical
or typical
Not
practical
or typical
Figure 3: Five technological approaches for rendering digital twins and their capabilities
uniforms such as those required for clean
room and food processing operations.
Within each class of device, capabilities vary,
and the variance may significantly affect a
product’s viabilities for different use cases.
This is especially true for AR headsets.
Display resolution, field-of-view and
computational power differ from product to
product. In addition, design decisions about
whether to put battery and compute units
on the headset or on a separate tethered
module can affect comfort and practicality.
One practical concern for AR headsets is how
they integrate with work clothing and
IIC Journal of Innovation
Reporting with a Digital Twin Context
Given an interactive visual analytics
application, intelligent reality reports can be
created with integrated 3D models like the
one shown in Figure 4. In this example,
Autodesk Forge is integrated into the
reporting interface of SAS Visual Analytics.
The digital twin presents a custom
visualization that can interact with other
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