could have used that a few years ago.. a properly marked 5400 volt primary that went down the pole to the eatery across the street from the new construction.. they were digging down looking for previous obstructions and was getting close to the base of the pole with the excavator.. i just happened to be walking past.. i live nearby. i made a cut throat motion to the excavator operator.. he shut down and called his boss over to where i was standing .. i was pointing down at the pavement. i ask if he had noted the Live 5400 volt underground cable clearly marked on the pavement being he was digging only about 2 feet from it. as he shook his head no.. the blood drained out of his face.. so the contractor/builder never pointed out the live high voltage.. nope. i never did find out anything more. years earlier i tried to point out to a hole boring machine operator that there was a telephone wire underground where he was about to drill a 70 or 80 foot 24" hole. nope.. don't pay attention to the unknown people standing near the job site.. they hooked and ripped out 250 feet of 200 pair cable. there went my phone service.. when the phone guy got there .. they brought out their locator wands.. i kept telling him your not going to find it.. its down in the pit.. its fastened really well in the ground and on the pole they can't rip it out.. .. yep.. ripped it right out of the clamped splices under the street and right off the pole.. this is the inverse of the situation... imgur.com/a/hVGYR the contractor had been calling the cable and phone company for 6 months to get those relocated like the power company had done. i was waiting for them to just take an axe to them.. and again.. i live at the end of those cables. i did experience a few minutes of outage when they eventually switched them.. i just smiled.
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This seems to show that it doesn't get the orientation of features right. At about 40 seconds, the drain doesn't align with the AR view. Unless for some reason it's meant to be a diamond symbol to represent a drain. Looks great though - and a great product idea
Thank you for your comment. Orientation can be done accurately only if the source data carries such information. In 99.9999999% of all cases, assets like manholes or inlets will be depicted as simple points in GIS databases. Points usually have x- and y- coordinates, but no other information. So parameters such as rotation, scale, shape, etc. are mostly assumed, and the 3D model may not perfectly match the physical item. The key for the utility workers is not the perfect match or even the perfect location, but rather understanding of where assets are and how they are connected.
@@imsorry4044 Steve had a valid comment. The idea is a good one but his comment also brings to light that it's still useless to dig on and to base serious build planning off of. I can tell you as a utility locator who marks gas, electric, phone, cable, water, and sewer, that the geographical locations on prints are wrong 9 out of 10 times. Even the direction that the utility takes on the prints are wrong most of the time. For example, earlier today I located an 8'' MOP gas main that the print said was 58' off of the centerline of the road, when it was in fact 42' off of the centerline. That's a very big deal. You hit that and you just may end up making a large crater in the earth. Trust me, there's not a locator in the world who doesnt dream about this type of tech. But you need more than just geographical locations to make this worthwhile.
@@bubbiee. Agree, As-Builts are only as good as the information recorded, and are usually wrong 9 times out of 10. They are often "As-Designed" and not "What-the Contractor-Did"
@@vGISInc However, the key for borehole drillers is a perfect match. Clearance is of paramount importance to complete a job safely. Using utility detection and designating services in such cases should be a requirement. Plans and the information they are based on are often very inaccurate, unless Level A information has been recorded under the ASCE 38-02 Guideline. Does the data display the Quality Level of the information as per the ASCE?.
Im more interested in the glasses than the AR system, because if it has a eye tracker, and can follow your eye to display the image as a person is looking around, instead of a screen in front of your eyes. This would be revolutionary. But sadly this is were the google glass failed, and apple will soon prevail. As in for the system it self, its a amazing concept but its pointless without a hands off approach. So my advice to you is waiting for the apple glasses, because everyone else lacks the technology to produce a worthwhile augmented reality eyewear.
