Although AR has a long history in the area of maintenance and service-support
in industry, there still is a lack of lightweight, yet practical solutions
for handheld AR systems in everyday workflows. Attempts to support complex
maintenance tasks with AR still miss reliable tracking techniques, simple
ways to be integrated into existing maintenance environments, and practical
authoring solutions, which minimize costs for specialized content generation.
We present a general, customisable application framework, allowing to employ
AR and VR techniques in order to support technicians in their daily tasks. In
contrast to other systems, we do not aim to replace existing support systems
such as traditional manuals. Instead we integrate well-known AR- and novel
presentation techniques with existing instruction media. To this end
practical authoring solutions are crucial and hence we present an application
development system based on web-standards such as HTML,CSS and X3D.
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