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The old-school way to train someone\nfor a task involves memorization, repetition, and practice, in order\nto make it like second nature. Not only is that time-consuming, but\nalso, people aren\u2019t very good at it. So why train, when AR makes it\nobsolete? Scope AR aims to help companies get out of old habits, and\nCEO Scott Montgomerie drops by to explain how.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlan: Today\u2019s guest is Scott\nMontgomerie from Scope AR. Scott is the CEO and co-founder of Scope\nAR, a global leader in developing augmented reality solutions and\nproducts for industrial clients focused around field maintenance,\nmanufacturing, and training. As the pioneer of utilizing AR for\nindustry support and training, Scope AR are partnered with technology\nleaders such as Google and Microsoft. Since founding the company in\n2011, Scott as one of the first executives to get augmented reality\ntools in use by multi-billion dollar corporations. Having launched\nmany AR firsts, Scott has become one of the industry\u2019s thought\nleaders and visionaries. He\u2019s shared his knowledge and spoken about\nsome of the most innovative uses of AR at several leading\nconferences, including South by Southwest, Augmented World Expo,\nUnity Vision Summit, and XRDC. Some of the clients include Unilever,\nPrince Castle and Lockheed Martin. To learn more about Scope AR,\nvisit scopear.com. Scott, welcome to the show.\n\n\n\nScott: Thanks a lot, Alan.\n\n\n\nAlan: Yeah man, I\u2019m really super\nexcited. We\u2019ve been kind of chatting offline and it\u2019s amazing, the\nwork you guys are doing and you\u2019re starting to really see this uptake\nof augmented reality being used in enterprise. Can you maybe give\npeople a 10,000 foot view of Scope AR, what you\u2019re doing, and who\nyour clients are, and what they\u2019re using it for?\n\n\n\nScott: Yeah, sure. So we really\nview that augmented reality is a way of interacting with the world in\na way that\u2019s much more intuitive, the way that we evolved with our\nhands and our eyes. And so we really view that there\u2019s a huge market\ncentral there. I think it was a stat out there that said that, 90\npercent of Silicon Valley is focused on the worker that\u2019s at their\ndesk, using computers and screens. And there\u2019s a vast market out\nthere that is untapped, in these field workers that are using their\nhands and their eyes. And so if we can use augmented reality to get\nthem the information they need, at the time of need, and really help\nthem become an expert when they need to know that information. And\nlike I said, we think that\u2019s a huge market. So we really approach the\nproblem in two different ways with our products. The first is a\nremote assistance capability. So we were the first to market with a\nproduct called Remote AR, we launched in 2015. So it was far before\nany of the other 30 companies that are out there today. The idea is\nthat it allows you to communicate over video between a technician and\nan expert. So it\u2019s almost like FaceTime. If you\u2019re looking at a piece\nof equipment \u2014 maybe a car engine \u2014 you take your phone or a pair\nof smart glasses like a Hololens, and you can look at this piece of\nequipment and transfer this video back to somebody with expertise.\nAnd this expert can now draw on their side of the screen, and get a\nreally good remote guide instructions. So the problem with something\nlike FaceTime is that the communication channel is not wide enough to\nprovide really good instructions. When was the last time you actually\ncommunicated with a mechanic over the phone or over FaceTime? There\u2019s\nno chance.\n\n\n\nAlan: Never.\n\n\n\nScott: Yeah, exactly. It would\nprobably be very painful for him to guide you how to replace\nsomething simple like a spark plug. \u201cIt\u2019s that one right there.\nNo, to the left. No, no, the other le