Design Interactive, Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: X224-OCSO1

Description

In the near future, Airmen are more likely to fight in highly-contested environments and the recent influx of inexperience maintenance personnel has the potential to affect the Air Force's ability to support mission requirements (Altman, 2022). To address lower experience among aircraft maintainers and develop Multi-Capable Airmen, a need exist to rapidly accelerate the proficiency level of Airmen. Design Interactive, Inc. (DI) has created XRMentor™, an instructor led training and self-guided procedure platform enhanced by augmented  reality (AR).  XRMentor™’s instructor led training feature ClassroomXR™ enables instructors to live stream (synchronous training) hands-on training to thousands of remote trainees simultaneously.  Also, instructors can provide a first-person view using the Microsoft HoloLens and switch seamlessly to an external web camera for third person views as well as share their computer screen.  Further, the training sessions are recorded and can distributed to the entire remote workforce through DI’s XRMentor™ mobile app and website for review.   Lastly, instructors can create how-to guides for remote maintainers to follow when executing work and include animated augmented reality models, pdf documents, photos and clips of the instructor led training video.  This collaborative training experience eliminates travel, dramatically increases the efficiency of training deliver and improves knowledge retention while making content available on demand, anywhere, at anytime., in a rapid, contextualized, and meaningful way to increase the knowledge of Airmen.