AT&T · Augmented Reality

The companion to Transforming Healthcare on the same AT&T floor: a tabletop factory that explains connected manufacturing by letting visitors watch it break and fix itself.

Visitors look down onto a physical model of a production line. Through HoloLens, the arms move, product travels the conveyor, and floating panels report claw status, torque, supply voltage and temperature in real time.

A run counter climbs until a service warning fires. The network raises a maintenance ticket, schedules the work, and the line carries on. The whole causal chain plays out in a minute on a table the size of a desk.

Every panel is anchored to the physical model, so the story reads from any side of the table and for any number of viewers in sequence.

Why it mattered

A service company’s story, told with a widget: the abstract value of a network made visible on a thing you can walk around.

Inside the build