Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA – January 15, 2025 – Arvizio, a leader in AI-powered augmented and mixed reality solutions for digital transformation, is excited to announce the launch of its Guides Converter tool, designed to seamlessly transition enterprises from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides to the Arvizio Instructor platform. The new tool streamlines the migration process by automatically converting existing Dynamics 365 Guides workflows into Arvizio Instructor, preserving all associated content and ensuring a smooth user experience.

Arvizio Instructor is an end-device agnostic digital workflow platform for immersive instructions, guidance, and training. With the introduction of the Guides Converter tool, Arvizio strengthens its position as a flexible, comprehensive alternative to Dynamics 365 Guides, empowering enterprises to maintain and expand their hands-free, guided work solutions without disruption.

Why It Matters

Enterprises that have invested heavily in hands-free guided workflows using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides can now protect their investment and preserve their AR programs. The Guides Converter tool provides an efficient path for migrating existing workflows to a new platform that offers greater flexibility, enhanced capabilities, and lower total cost of ownership.

“Many enterprises are evaluating their options as they look to extend the value of their digital transformation efforts,” said Taimoor Nawab, CEO at Arvizio. “Our Guides Converter tool ensures that organizations can seamlessly transition from Microsoft Guides to Arvizio Instructor, leveraging their existing workflows while gaining access to advanced features such as AI-driven validation, remote expert collaboration, and secure private deployment.”

Unlike Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides, which requires specific hardware and services, Arvizio Instructor is a hardware-agnostic, multi-platform solution. It offers a robust set of features, including AI Validator for task validation, remote expert collaboration tools, private cloud deployment options, offline mode, and custom development capabilities

Disclaimer

Arvizio’s Guides Converter tool is independently developed by Arvizio and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft and Dynamics 365 Guides are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Arvizio is a member of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Network and is committed to supporting enterprises in their digital transformation journeys with innovative, complementary solutions.

About Arvizio

Arvizio provides AI-powered augmented and mixed reality solutions for enterprises seeking to transform their operations with immersive technology. The company’s platforms, including Arvizio Instructor, combine augmented reality, AI-driven validation, and IoT integration to enhance productivity, improve accuracy, and reduce costs across industries such as manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and more.

For more information about Arvizio’s innovative solutions visit www.arvizio.io or, contact us.

Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA – [October 16, 2024] – Arvizio, a leader in augmented and virtual reality, and AI-powered digital transformation solutions, is excited to announce the expansion of its offering to deliver custom solutions tailored to address specific customer needs. This enhanced strategic direction follows a series of successful engagements with global enterprise clients, demonstrating the demand for customized technology applications that leverage Arvizio’s powerful AI, AR/VR, and digital workflow technologies. Arvizio’s expanded custom solution offering focuses on leveraging its established technology expertise, which has proven instrumental in the success of the Arvizio Instructor platform.

The expanded offering now includes the ability to design and develop custom applications built around Arvizio’s core technology blocks which include Cloud Frameworks, 3D Model Visualization, Remote Expert, and AI-powered Validator and Object Detection. By tailoring these modules to fit unique operational challenges, Arvizio is helping customers solve critical issues, enhance operational efficiency, and reduce costs. From immersive training solutions to connected IoT systems, Arvizio’s flexible approach offers a wide array of possibilities for industries seeking digital transformation.

“Our customers often face unique challenges that demand more than off-the-shelf solutions,” said Taimoor Nawab, CEO of Arvizio. “By offering custom-designed solutions, we give our clients the ability to directly address their operational issues and fully leverage the power of AI and AR/VR technologies to meet their specific needs. This expanded direction reflects our commitment to providing flexible, high-impact solutions that truly transform how organizations operate.”

Arvizio’s deep expertise in AR/VR and AI enables its technology to be customized for a range of applications, including remote training, process guidance, and IoT-connected environments. For example, AI Validator can be deployed as a standalone solution for industries such as automotive, industrial manufacturing, and energy, offering advanced quality assurance and process validation.

With the ability to create customer-specific solutions, Arvizio offers unmatched flexibility for industries with unique operational needs. Whether it's leveraging AI for real-time inspection, integrating IoT data with digital twins, or creating immersive, interactive training programs, Arvizio’s custom solutions enable enterprises to streamline operations, increase safety, and reduce costs.

By offering custom solutions built on its robust technology blocks, Arvizio is empowering enterprises to innovate with flexibility and confidence. These customized applications not only enhance operational performance but also provide a pathway to greater efficiency, safety, and profitability across various industries.

Arvizio’s cutting-edge technology expertise ensures that enterprises can adopt a forward-thinking approach to digital transformation. Whether it’s optimizing field operations with real-time data overlays, validating workflows with AI, or delivering immersive training solutions, Arvizio’s custom applications are designed to drive measurable business outcomes.

Additional information can be found on Arvizio’s newly launched website: www.arvizio.io.

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Arvizio, a leader in AI-powered and immersive digital transformation solutions for enterprises, is proud to announce the launch of AI Validator, a cutting-edge solution designed to revolutionize work validation processes for industries such as automotive, industrial manufacturing, oil and gas, defense, and aerospace. By utilizing AI-powered visual inspection, AI Validator streamlines complex workflows, ensures accuracy, eliminates costly missed steps, and boosts operational efficiency, delivering unparalleled value to enterprises requiring high levels of precision and compliance.

AI Validator transforms work validation across industries by providing real-time, AI-powered inspection and task validation. It ensures precision in assembly, maintenance, and quality control through mobile devices, tablets, and fixed camera setups, reducing errors and costly rework. In the energy and critical infrastructure sectors, AI Validator enhances safety by automating inspections and ensuring regulatory compliance. In addition, defense and aerospace industries deploying AI Validator, are guaranteed high-precision task execution while improving transparency and mitigating risks in mission-critical operations.

Defect detection with AI Validator

"We are thrilled to introduce AI Validator, a solution that redefines how industries approach work validation and certification,” said Taimoor Nawab, CEO at Arvizio. “By harnessing the power of AI and AR, AI Validator automates critical processes, ensuring safety, accuracy, and compliance at every step. This solution is particularly impactful for the automotive, manufacturing, energy, and aerospace industries, where precision and adherence to strict standards are critical."

AI Validator can be deployed as a standalone SaaS solution, fully customized to meet specific enterprise needs, on the Edge, or utilized as part of the Arvizio Instructor platform. This flexibility allows businesses to incorporate AI-powered validation into their existing workflows or leverage it as part of a broader AR and AI-based training and inspection platform, ensuring optimal efficiency and adaptability across industries.

Designed with flexibility in mind, AI Validator supports deployment across a variety of devices. Whether using mobile devices or tablets for guidance and real-time validation or integrating with fixed camera devices for automated, 24/7 monitoring and inspection, AI Validator adapts to meet the specific operational needs of enterprises.

AI Validator is tailored to meet the critical needs of industries where accuracy, precision, and safety are paramount. The solution's ability to automatically validate tasks using advanced AI and AR capabilities makes it an invaluable and transformative tool.

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Arvizio, a leading provider of AI-powered digital transformation solutions for enterprises is excited to announce that AR Instructor can now be deployed in secure private cloud (and on-prem) network environments.  This significant enhancement, supporting both physical and virtual machine deployments, enables organizations to leverage the power of AR Instructor while hosting it in their own networks, allowing for increased security and control over their immersive digital workflow solutions.

“Private deployments are critical to enterprises looking to maintain cohesive network solutions and architectures where security and control are paramount,” says Taimoor Nawab, CEO of Arvizio. “Enterprises in mission-critical sectors and critical infrastructure require the added security of private deployments, which also enables easier integration with other corporate services and applications.”

Many industries require secure private cloud deployment

Industries requiring the added security and control of private deployments include Defense, Government, Healthcare, Energy and Critical Infrastructure.

For many customers private network deployment is a must and this enhancement underscores Arvizio's commitment to offering versatile, industry-leading immersive solutions that cater to the specific requirements of its customers

AR Instructor Overview

AR Instructor is an AI powered, scalable and customizable, eXtended Reality (XR) digital workflow solution that transforms how enterprises execute interactive training, workflows and validation. Designed with an ‘author once and deploy everywhere’ focus, the solution makes it easy for anyone to create, use and support with a no-code approach.

Key Features of AR Instructor:

• Flexible deployment environment: Arvizio Cloud or Private Network
• OS platform agnostic
• No-Code authoring
• Support for mobile devices, tablets and immersive headsets (Meta Quest 3, Microsoft HoloLens 2, Magic Leap 2)
• AI edge services for visual inspection and object recognition
• Remote Expert capability
• Third party application support

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Arvizio, a leader in augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR) enterprise solutions, proudly announces the appointment of Taimoor Nawab as its new Chief Executive Officer. Taimoor joins an exceptional team at a pivotal time as Arvizio continues to invest in the future, aiming to enhance enterprise capabilities with its state-of-the-art platform that leverages AI and AR/MR technology to improve training, productivity, and operational efficiency.

“I’m thrilled to be part of such an outstanding team and innovative product offering,” said Taimoor Nawab, CEO of Arvizio. ”Arvizio  solutions transform how we engage with tools, processes, systems, and technology. By integrating AR and AI, Arvizio enables users and enterprises to scale and train efficiently while reducing long-term operational costs and boosting productivity. I’m excited to lead the next phase of Arvizio’s growth.”

Taimoor Nawab, Arvizio CEO

Prior to joining Arvizio, Taimoor held engineering and business leadership roles at various companies, most recently serving as SVP & Head of Syntronic R&D Canada. He brings extensive experience in developing and growing businesses into profitable and sustainable organizations that deliver complex product solutions.

“Taimoor’s broad background in engineering and business leadership, coupled with his proven track record of driving growth, makes him an invaluable addition to Arvizio,” said Alex Berlin, President & COO of Arvizio. “We are confident that under his leadership, Arvizio will continue to innovate and expand our solutions to meet the evolving needs of our enterprise customers.”

Looking ahead, Arvizio plans to accelerate the deployment of its solutions, introduce advanced feature sets, and expand collaboration with enterprises to customize offerings that address their specific and often highly complex needs. The Arvizio platform, which enhances work training and productivity through AI and AR/MR guided instructions and validation, is poised to revolutionize enterprise operations.

Arvizio, a leading provider of augmented and mixed reality solutions for enterprises, announced the expansion of its AR Instructor platform to include support of the Meta Quest 3 mixed reality headset. AR Instructor for Meta Quest 3 is now generally available and represents a significant leap forward in Arvizio's mission to offer versatile, cost-effective, and industry-leading immersive solutions, reaffirming its commitment to revolutionizing training and operational experiences with cutting-edge immersive technology powered by AI.

With the availability of AR Instructor on Meta Quest 3, Arvizio customers gain access to a wide array of AR, VR, and MR capabilities, empowering them to streamline their day-to-day workforce training, upskilling, and onboarding processes across various operational activities, including maintenance, repair, and field service.

AR Instructor digital workflows facilitate effective utilization of mixed reality technology, whether for upskilling existing employees, training new hires, or optimizing maintenance operations and overall productivity. The transformative training experience on Meta Quest 3 provides step-by-step instructions and hands-on practice in both fully immersive and mixed reality environments, allowing employees to learn complex procedures with a hands-on approach. This is particularly valuable for industries with intricate workflows and skill requirements.

AR Instructor digital workflow training and authoring with Meta Quest 3

Meta Quest 3 users will benefit from powerful mixed reality experiences, enabling them to engage with digital twin-based content in an immersive and interactive manner.

Alex Berlin, President, and CEO of Arvizio, commented, "We are thrilled to expand our compatibility to include Meta Quest 3 headsets. This development underscores our commitment to providing clients with the most advanced mixed reality solutions available. Businesses can select the device that best suits their unique needs while benefiting from Arvizio's industry-leading technology and AR Instructor's immersive training capabilities."

Arvizio's AR Instructor solution with Meta Quest 3 offers customers:

Seamless Deployment: Easy deployment on the Meta Quest 3 headset via App Lab, allowing users to leverage its full capabilities using both the VR and MR features of the device.

Cross-Platform Versatility: Customers now have the flexibility to choose from a range of industry-leading headsets, including Microsoft HoloLens 2, Magic Leap 2, and Meta Quest 3, as well as tablets and smartphones, ensuring compatibility and flexibility across diverse devices.

Custom Integration: Arvizio offers custom development tailored to integrate AR Instructor on Meta Quest 3 with existing IT systems, ensuring a smooth digital transition.

The extended support for Meta Quest 3 opens doors for industries to leverage AR Instructor for a wide range of applications, empowering businesses to harness the power of Arvizio's digital workflow solution while using the headset or device that best meets their requirements. Moreover, AR Instructor's scalability makes it suitable for enterprises of various sizes, catering to training and operational needs across different team sizes.

Arvizio, the foremost name in augmented and mixed reality solutions for enterprises, today unveiled an AI-driven enhancement to their renowned AR Instructor platform. This new feature set, leveraging cutting-edge artificial intelligence, provides visual inspection to verify and validate that work instructions have been correctly performed and improve quality assurance of performed tasks. These capabilities further solidify Arvizio's commitment to transforming enterprise operations, maintenance, training, and field service.

The AI-based visual inspection capabilities promise to redefine the landscape of AR training and work instruction. Operations and field service leaders can now create immersive training sessions while automatically detecting and highlighting discrepancies, ensuring flawless execution of important tasks.

AI visual inspection and validation on AR Instructor

Alex Berlin, President and CEO of Arvizio, commented, "The integration of AI-driven visual inspection recognition and anomaly detection is a game-changer. Our AR Instructor was already an invaluable tool for enterprises, but with this addition, we're ensuring that training and operations are not just immersive but also accurate and improve quality assurance."

Key Features of AR Instructor AI-based Visual Inspection:

• Cloud Service: Utilizes AI for image training and real-time inference to detect visual anomalies and defects by comparing them with trained data sets.
• AR-Powered Data Capture: Extends the AR Instructor application to capture and label images for data set training, using augmented reality to guide the image capture process.
• Automatic Anomaly Detection: Identifies and highlights visual anomalies automatically, ensuring that trainees and operators are promptly alerted to any deviations from the standard.
• Seamless Integration: Integrates seamlessly with existing AR Instructor features such as step-by-step instruction and no-code authoring, providing a comprehensive AR experience.

These AI enhancements address the current workforce skills gap faced by enterprises. With the enhanced AR Instructor, Arvizio aims to bridge this gap by offering more precise and detail-oriented training and operational solutions.

AR Instructor is a cross-platform solution, supporting a range of the industry’s leading AR/VR headsets and devices, including Microsoft HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap 2, as well as iPads, iPhones and Android mobile devices. Arvizio is planning additional headset support including Quest 3, Vive XR Elite and headsets utilizing Qualcomm Snapdragon Spaces.

Arvizio offers custom development and will craft immersive solutions tailored to your business goals. With our expertise in AR/VR, mixed reality, AI, and more, we create impactful digital solutions and assist with integration with existing IT systems to ensure a smooth digital transition.

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Arvizio, a leader in augmented and mixed reality for the enterprise, announced the availability of new, robust digital twin features in their AR Instructor augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) solution to transform and accelerate training activities. The latest interactive and responsive digital twin actions are designed to bring workers up to speed quickly through streamlined knowledge capture and transfer, and enhanced training.

AR Instructor training using interactive Digital Twins.

The use of digital twins, in stand-alone training scenarios or overlayed on physical equipment, provide the AR Instructor user with precise, easily identified attributes to further guide their instruction. In stand-alone training sessions, digital twins remove the need to take equipment offline and travel to equipment sites and offers organizations the ability to improve skill retention and reduce, or eliminate, repetitive training sessions. To be truly effective, the digital twin needs to be an interactive part of the training experience. AR Instructor now includes responsive and interactive digital twin and AI features including:

• 3D Model Hot Spots - Digital twins can be augmented with hot spot areas or feature buttons which direct the user to take action, move to a new step, or validate positive identification.
• 3D Model Responsive Placement – The ability to accurately position parts and components is vital to many training scenarios. AR Instructor responds to the movement of components to validate accuracy of placement and provide guiding responses to the user.
• 3D Model Animation – 3D digital twins can be animated to demonstrate object placement or emphasize a workflow activity.
• Generative AI Assist (Beta)– A dialog-based AI tool to help create and organize workflow instructions. Users simply copy and paste content from existing manuals and documents and AR Instructor automatically creates step-by-step instructions.

In addition, AR Instructor’s remote connectivity capabilities enable in-house experts to connect with employees anywhere to teach them new skills, troubleshoot issues and collaborate on a shared view of their environment.

“Incorporating interactive digital twin and AI-generated content into employee training programs is an easy and effective method to improve employee performance and safety, as well as ensure equipment uptime and reliability,” said Alex Berlin, President and CEO at Arvizio. “With AR Instructor, the training workflows can also be used to support employees in the field or transformed into customer-facing material for use in interactive product demonstrations or service and repair instructions.”

AR Instructor’s convergence of physical and digital learning experiences provides critical information to employees when and where they need it in an engaging, interactive format that reduces cognitive load and encourages knowledge retention.

AR Instructor is a cross-platform solution supporting a range of the industry’s leading AR headsets and devices, including Microsoft HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap 2, as well as iPads, iPhones and Android mobile devices. A demo package is also available for Qualcomm Snapdragon Spaces.

Arvizio, a leader in augmented and mixed reality for the enterprise, announced a new suite of features for their no-code AR Instructor augmented reality (AR) solution designed to transform and accelerate operations, maintenance, training and field service activities. The enhancements include interactive and responsive digital twin actions, hands-free gesture capabilities, and multi-user conferencing with remote assistance.

AR Instructor using hand gestures on Magic Leap 2 and Remote Expert conferencing features.

The significant gap in workforce skills, recruiting and training new employees, and increasing the knowledge base of current staff, creates both time and budgetary challenges for organizations. Using AR Instructor, operations and field service leaders can create engaging training tailored specifically to their standard operating procedures and complex equipment. This visual experience promotes immersive, hands-on learning that enables workers to interact with their environment, quickly gain new skills and expertise, and receive additional guidance from an expert while working remotely.

Arvizio is committed to delivering the technology and tools to streamline operational activities and train employees more efficiently. AR Instructor technology feature enhancements include:

Hands-free Gestures for Magic Leap 2 – Hands-free capabilities are a critical aspect of AR guided workflows and enable the user to visualize the overlayed instructions and assets leaving the hands unrestricted to perform the required activity. AR Instructor on Magic Leap 2 allows the user to switch between controller utilization and gestures seamlessly within the application while performing complex tasks. Use of the controller remains a preferred method when authoring 3D workflows.

Remote Expert Conferencing – The ability to connect with a remote expert for additional guidance and/or validation of performed work is crucial to attaining success in both training and actual task performance. AR Instructor now supports conference features for simultaneous interaction with multiple participants. The Arvizio conference feature allows several team members to join a web browser user session and provide real-time feedback. Participants can capture freeze-frame pictures from the onsite user video feed and provide AR annotations visible to all participants.

Responsive Digital Twins – The use of digital twins, in stand-alone training scenarios or overlayed on physical equipment, provide the AR Instructor user with precise, easily identified attributes to further guide their instruction. AR Instructor now includes interactive and responsive digital twin features:

• 3D Model Hot Spots - Digital twins can be augmented with hot spot areas or feature buttons which directs the user to take action, move to a new step, or validates positive identification.
• 3D Model Responsive Movement – The ability to accurately position parts and components is vital to many training scenarios. AR Instructor responds to the movement of components to validate accuracy of placement and provide guiding responses to the user.

 

These new features are available for Magic Leap 2 and Microsoft HoloLens 2 headsets and iPad, iPhone, and Android devices. A demo package is also available for Qualcomm Snapdragon Spaces.

“As business leaders work to actively address on-going staffing shortages, it is important for them to optimize operational practices and training initiatives,” said Alex Berlin, President and CEO at Arvizio. “AR Instructor continues to give companies new features that are not only highly tailored to enhancing retention and hiring efforts, but also configurable to allow each individual company to personalize their instruction for their unique needs. With AR Instructor, customers can reduce their training workload and improve accuracy and safety so that they can focus on business growth.”

AR Instructor provides the tools to train and guide personnel and enhance the productivity of physical work. AR Instructor enables the creation of instructional content in the form of step-by-step procedures, using no-code authoring tools and seamless integration of 3D models, videos, documents, and images. Users can quickly connect with remote experts to see the on-site worker’s physical world in real-time and collaborate via their web browser.

AR Instructor is a cross-platform solution supporting a range of the industry’s leading AR headsets and devices, including Microsoft HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap 2, as well as iPads, iPhones and Android mobile devices.

Arvizio, a leader in augmented and mixed reality for the enterprise, demonstrates their no-code AR Instructor augmented reality (AR) solution for digitally-assisted training and upskilling instruction, promotes operational excellence for businesses and workers at all levels. The emergence of lower cost, next-generation mixed reality (MR) headsets provide the opportunity for organizations to significantly improve their operational training activities.

Across industries, organizations are embracing mixed reality to enhance and improve their training programs and knowledge transfer initiatives. Comprehensive step-by-step instructions with interactive, visual cues projected directly onto the work surface, guide workers and direct their attention to the relevant aspects of complex tasks one step at a time. This ensures that their focus is on the quality of that one action, substantially reducing time, errors, and improving knowledge retention.

AR Instructor is an ideal visual, guided work instruction solution for all industries including Healthcare, Information Technology, and Manufacturing.

 

AR Instructor provides the tools to train and guide personnel and enhance the productivity of physical work. AR Instructor enables the creation of instructional content in the form of step-by-step procedures, using no-code authoring tools and seamless integration of 3D models, videos, documents, and images. Users can quickly connect with remote experts to see the on-site worker’s physical world in real-time and collaborate via their web browser. Other features include 3D model animation, computer vision alignment, offline mode and workflow sharing. In addition, users have the option of overlaying instructions on the physical equipment or, training with a digital twin – greatly increasing training capacity.

A cross-platform solution, AR Instructor already supports a range of the industry’s leading AR headsets and devices, including Microsoft HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap 2, as well as iPads, iPhones and Android mobile devices. Arvizio also recently demonstrated Lenovo A3 smart glasses and Qualcomm Snapdragon Spaces.  Providing a cross platform solution is essential as new mixed reality headsets will continue to enter the market with smaller form factors and lower price points providing customers with more options for introducing digital training programs.

The combination of mixed reality headsets with AR Instructor’s digital, interactive solution, provides firms with an edge when onboarding, training, and upskilling employees. AR Instructor enables workers to utilize crucial visual prompts, including product orientation and spatial context, while performing complex tasks to work more accurately and with greater understanding than following textual or video instruction alone.

Customers using Arvizio solutions include leading companies in Energy, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Industrial Robotics, Aerospace and Defense.

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