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Technology for first-line workers<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Information workers \u2014 people who do much of their work at a computer to produce words, design things, respond to emails, manage people or make business decisions \u2014 have benefited from an explosion of technologies allowing them to learn nearly anything with the touch of a mouse and communicate instantaneously. That\u2019s driven unprecedented productivity gains for individuals and businesses.<\/p>\n

But most people don\u2019t work that way. People who use their hands to assemble, care for, repair, troubleshoot or interact with things have too often been an afterthought in this technological revolution. That\u2019s left an enormous opportunity to give first-line workers the technology they need to make similar productivity gains, said Lorraine Bardeen, Microsoft general manager for Dynamics 365 Mixed Reality at Work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first-line workforce in so many companies is vital not only to day-to-day operations, but also in the way they craft their products. And they\u2019re often the majority of employees,\u201d Bardeen said. \u201cAnd yet they\u2019ve experienced very little of the empowerment that technology has brought to people who work in offices or more traditionally compute-friendly environments.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Microsoft started asking companies about how mixed reality could benefit them, the same needs bubbled up across industries. They wanted help connecting workers in remote locations or disparate workplaces with experts to troubleshoot problems, in envisioning how equipment or furniture or physical objects will actually fit in three-dimensional spaces and in training new employees who need their hands free to perform work.<\/p>\n

To deliver more out-of-the-box value \u2014 in the way that programs like Microsoft Word and Excel helped people find value in a new operating system called Windows \u2014 Microsoft has created mixed reality applications for Microsoft Dynamics 365<\/a>. These allow companies to almost immediately use HoloLens 2 to meet workplace needs without needing to hire a small army of developers.<\/p>\n

Dynamics 365 Guides now joins Dynamics 365 Remote Assist<\/a> and Dynamics 365 Layout<\/a> as Microsoft\u2019s pioneering mixed reality applications for business. Guides allows companies to move training materials from flat paper and screens into an immersive three-dimensional experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone here wants to be successful, and the ability to get new employees in and make them productive quickly is invaluable,\u201d said Rob Branson, senior director of global technologies and operations for PACCAR ITD, which has worked with an early version of Dynamics 365 Guides.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you think about the way adults learn, it\u2019s very visual. And the ability to see step-by-step instructions overlaid on an actual physical object will really accelerate how an employee learns a new task,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

HoloLens 2 was designed with these workers in mind \u2014 it\u2019s lighter and far more comfortable than the previous generation of HoloLens, with a more balanced center of gravity, so a person can wear it all day. A new flip-up visor lets workers switch easily between physical and holographic worlds.<\/p>\n

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