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Recently Released Augmented Reality Guides

12/06/2016

Imagine training your workers with digital materials and resources, imagine a more interactive induction process with better safety outcomes…

Hot off the printing press, our recently released guides feature Augmented Reality (AR) capabilities. These guides are providing new ways to interact with health and safety content and further information. This can all be accessed via the Pro-Vis AR app on your smart device or mobile phone.

Stop imagining and start engaging with AR technology.

Your Fitness & Health – The Next AR Edition

09/06/2016

Needing the motivation to get back into training and eating healthier meals after hibernating over winter? I for one am glad that the warmer months are quickly approaching, it is certainly a lot easier to get out of bed in the morning!

But it’s equally hard to find the time these days to actually sit down and plan your weeks’ worth of meals or training sessions, isn’t it?

Well, don’t despair! The next augmented reality capable National Guide to Fitness & Health has been released. And this year it provides Pro-Vis AR app users, gym-goers and personal trainers, with a chance to download and interact with weekly Meal Plans and High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) weekly workouts.

Split down the middle the guide focuses on nutrition on the one hand, and training on the other for a balanced approach to your fitness and health. There are many contributing factors to a healthy lifestyle and maintaining a healthy diet is imperative.

“In Australia, the most common form of malnutrition is over-nutrition, where there is an excessive intake of dietary energy (kilojoules) and/or dietary salt, sugars, alcohol, and saturated and trans-saturated fats (unhealthy fats).”

– Dr Rebecca Reynolds | The Real Bok Choy

Regular exercise is also important, don’t we know it, and therefore factoring in some form of exercise each day is a great way to go. However, if you’re like me, dedicating even an hour to exercise each day can become tricky and is simply hard to achieve on the best of days. That’s where the HIIT workout plans come in handy.

Get in a rhythm as the warmer months and summer approach, subscribe to the guide and take the opportunity to use Pro-Vis AR and these convenient plans to get you started!

Summer is coming!

Our next interactive safety guide is coming soon to a livestock farm near you

10/05/2016

After the huge success of our first safety guide with Augmented Reality (AR) capabilities – the National Guide to Fitness & Health 2015/16 – Pro-Visual Publishing is about to release the Livestock Industry Guide to Workplace Safety 2015/16. Using the Pro-Vis AR app on smart phones or tablets, farmers working in the livestock industry can unlock hidden content and engage with relevant and up-to-date safety information.

Some of the most fatal accidents occur on livestock farms, especially when it comes to operating quad bikes and stacking hay bales. Rollovers account for more than half of quad bike deaths, and countless farmers have been crushed to death or severely injured by falling hay bales. AR brings these risks to life and because viewers spend seven times longer engaging with interactive technology, it really drives the message home.

Several companies are doing their bit to promote safety on livestock farms as well. Using AR technology as an interactive portal to their innovative and high quality products, Cub Cadet, Waratah and Christie Engineering are helping to reduce the risk of injury to livestock workers by ensuring the safest equipment is being used.

Get your free copy and discover safety through augmented reality by downloading the Pro-Vis AR app from the Apple app store or the Google Play store.

National Guide to Fitness & Health 2015/16

06/05/2016

Have you ever been stumped at the gym unsure how to correctly perform certain exercises? Are you confused with nutritional advice and what the optimal intake is for certain food groups? Worry no longer! A new and exciting resource has just been launched that takes the guesswork out of all these frustrations.

Introducing the first AR capable mounted workplace Guide, the National Guide to Fitness & Health 2015/16. This specific Guide transforms a static, printed material into a 3D experience.

The National Guide to Fitness & Health 2015/16 includes specific AR driven content on exercises that automatically engages and assists instructors and patrons on the correct way to execute a movement. This revolutionary approach also provides additional ideas for muscle strengthening and toning. Who doesn’t love the idea of being able to actually watch the correct way to use gym equipment?

Exciting, right? There’s more. The Guide has also incorporated AR driven nutritional content that quickly delivers information by simply scanning your electronic device over the Guide. The in-depth content clearly explains the five food groups that all Australians should be consuming – in 3D mode.

All you need is to download the free app on a portable electronic device and the Guide will literally come to life before your eyes.

The National Guide to Fitness & Health 2015/16 will be rolled out in hundreds of gyms across Australia this week. Personal trainers, instructors and gym goers are all eagerly awaiting this innovative technology, and to start using it in their daily regimes. Click here to experience the Guide for yourself.

It’s time to experience a new era of fitness training.

Guest Feature: “How Will ‘Augmented Reality’ Affect Your Business?” by John Sviokla & Anand Rao

11/04/2016

Ever wondered how Augmented Reality (AR) will affect your business?

According to John Sviokla and Anand Rao from Harvard Business Review, AR will change the very nature of advertising, location and the way we disseminate information.

What are your thoughts? Has AR already been playing a role in the way you do business, or how you access information?

Make Safety a Priority with Pro-Vis AR

10/04/2016

Raise awareness | Encourage discussion | Share stories

You may not know it, but October is National Safe Work Month, and brought to you by Safe Work Australia, the above slogan remains the word of the day for this entire month.

But how do you try and get the message of safety and health across to those in your workplace? Have you ever had to consider the health and safety of others? What about your health and safety?

“Overall, most employers perceived that they managed health and safety empowerment and justice well and frequently in their businesses.

However, up to one-quarter of employers indicated they did not frequently empower their workers through active consultation around safety and did not always treat their workers justly, especially when investigating accidents.”

– Safe Work Australia, report on employers’ beliefs regarding how well they manage work health and safety.

Reading through the legislation and responsibilities is something most of us associate with workplace health and safety, our obligations, training and ongoing performance also seems to revolve around what the workplace and laws regulate. Or we visualise something like a Hierarchy of Control:

Source: Health & Safety Handbook

But what if I told you that it starts with developing a culture of safety? Would that even make sense?

To help workplaces in their attempts to increase awareness, encourage discussion and share experiences of health and safety procedures or situations, the Pro-Vis AR app enhances traditional print media based information and provides a window to further interactive, digitally accessible materials.

As part of National Safe Work Month, what will you be doing to ensure you and your workers are keeping safe?

For further information, check out Safe Work Australia’s website, or even get your hands on one of Pro-Visual Publishing’s relevant industry health, safety and wellbeing information resource guides. Discover more health and safety information at your fingertips and continue to help raise awareness, encourage discussion and share stories.

Using AR to educate young workers of the dangers of working at heights

03/04/2016

On the 19th of February, 2016, Pro-Visual Publishing helped launch the Working At Heights Interactive Initiative, a project of the Master Builders Association of NSW and SafeWork NSW. Utilising the latest technology, Augmented Reality (AR), the initiative is a new approach to getting the safety message across to young construction workers and apprentices, as well as raising the profile of this important issue, which sees so many workers involved in fatal accidents each year.

To launch the initiative, Pro-Visual Publishing CEO John Hutchings brought up a hologram of MBA Executive Director Brian Seidler using just a piece of paper and the Pro-Vis AR app. The real Brian Seidler joined his hologram at the front to address the audience of young apprentices, industry representatives and special guests.

Peter Dunphy, Executive Director of SafeWork NSW, spoke about the frustration of seeing falls from heights on a regular basis. From a safety regulator perspective he spoke of how important it is to think of new ways to prevent these incidents by trying something new and different. He also spoke on behalf of the NSW Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation, Vincent Dominello, about how fantastic this initiative will be for promoting safety when working at heights.

John Hutchings returned to the front to discuss the technology behind the Working At Heights poster. This AR technology allows owners of any smart device to bring digital content into the real world in real time. This means safety information, legislation and educational videos can be accessed anywhere, anytime. Safety is literally at your fingertips. John’s demonstration of the poster’s AR capabilities, particularly the graphic animated experiences, garnered many ooh’s and ahh’s from the young apprentices in the audience.

Peter Glover of MBA NSW spoke about the many possible uses of such technology for training and awareness, especially in toolbox talks. David Solomon, Executive Officer of Safety at MBA NSW, spoke briefly about a recent incident involving a fall from height that breached codes of practice.

With this example, David introduced the next speaker, David Crawford, a man who has first-hand experience of the dangers of working at heights. One day while working at a height, the section of the roof David was standing on collapsed beneath him. The impact of falling almost five metres fractured his spine and he suffered several injuries from tools in his belt and on the ground where he fell.

David’s story reminded the young apprentices in the audience that accidents and workplace injuries could happen to anyone, anywhere, anytime. David praised the genius of the Working At Heights Interactive Initiative as a tool in your pocket wherever you are. Whether you’re in tunnel, up on a roof, or down a hole, you have safety there in front of you.

Download your free copy of the Working At Heights poster and access further safety information with the free Pro-Vis AR app. Instructions can be found here. Remember to keep safe at work!

Pro-Visual goes to AR Sydney Meetup

08/02/2016

That’s all changing. For real. And I’ve seen some pretty exciting new technologies that are making augmented reality an actual reality. I was lucky enough to get to play with some of these technologies and hear about even more at the Augmented Reality Sydney Meetup on the 31st of July at Muru-D in Paddington.

Bringing together innovators, developers, technologists and enthusiasts, the meetup made you feel like a kid in a toy store. With all these gadgets on display, it was the perfect opportunity to show off our own National Guide to Fitness & Health 2015/16, our first AR capable guide.

Watching people bring the Fitness Guide to life using the Pro-Vis AR app was pretty special, especially since most of them had never seen anything like it. They were truly impressed with the guide and many commented on how beneficial it would be in gyms and fitness centres, even in their own homes.

We’re in a pretty exciting time not just here at Pro-Visual but in the ever-growing world of augmented reality. AR will one day make superhumans of us all, but for now we’re helping make better and safer workplaces one guide at a time so stay tuned for our next AR capable guide.

FEATURE: “Augmented Reality 101” by Lance Spellman

07/02/2016

As Augmented Reality (AR) gets more sophisticated and better known, how are businesses adopting it and using it, and what does it mean for the future of business and service?

How does it affect your business?

Lance Spellman, founder and President of Workflow Studios, offers a guide to this fast growing technology. See what he says in the recent article:

Augmented Reality 101 – What it means for the future of business

“The truth is, we’re still far away from the widespread implementation of both AR and VR. Both are in their infancy, but it will be exciting to see how they grow and develop in the coming years.”

GUEST FEATURE: Augmented Reality Interactive Working At Heights Experience Initiative, Made Easy!

03/02/2016

Master Builders NSW has launched its Working at Heights Initiative supported by SafeWork NSW. The initiative was launched on Friday 19 February 2016 by Mr Peter Dunphy PSM, Executive Director – SafeWork NSW.

It is particularly designed to reach younger workers in the industry who may lack the necessary experience when working at heights. Workers under 25 years of age account for 20 percent of work related injuries. In order to engage with younger workers, Master Builders has used the medium of Augmented Reality (AR) to convey the working at heights safety message.

In order to experience the Master Builders augmented reality safety initiative, simply download the ProViS AR app and scroll to the MBA NSW icon point your device’s camera at the elements on the poster, which then launches the relevant content, module or Code of Practice. Features include a number of graphic falling from heights scenarios and 360 degree immersion experience on a building site that serves to outline potential hazards and drive engagement in the training process. Literally hundreds of pages of information and image can be accessed through the MBA NSW Working At Height Interactive Initiative.

John Hutchings ProVisual CEO, has worked tirelessly and closely with the MBA NSW in the development of the Augmented Reality (AR) experience that includes the use of Computer Generated Image (CGI) technology. John delivered an interactive presentation on the content of the poster and the numerous windows and pathways that the interactive poster can offer. The experience is accessed via platformed based technology, that enables the content to be changed almost instantaneously, allowing the provider to to upload content as it happens.

Ashley Schulz 2015 MBA Apprentice of the year displayed how easy the AR experience was to use, by connecting her own smartphone to the app, projecting her selected pathway through the AR poster to the audience via two large screens. Further supporting the ease in which the app can be used.

Motivational Speaker, David Crawford, Spinal Cord Injuries Australia, Team Safe Coordinator, delivered an inspirational presentation captivating the audience’s attention with his own experience drawing the focus to the importance of and the serious nature of working at heights, faced everyday within the Building and Construction Industry.

The Master Builders Association of New South Wales would like to thank all those involved with the development, delivery, coordination and attendance of the event, which was a resounding success in a bid to raise working at heights awareness to the younger Building and Construction Industry workforce, through technology they use everyday.
See the interactive poster below this article.

Written by David Solomon, Executive Officer Safety, MBA NSW. Posted 23rd of February 2016 on LinkedIn