| | MAY 20198CIOReviewBy Sam Lamonica, CIO and Fred Meeske, Corporate Director BIM Services, RosendinAnd so, our journey continues. . . my name is Sam Lamonica, CIO at Rosendin. My friend and colleague Fred Meeske, Corporate Director of BIM Services, and I embarked on a mission a while back to figure out how we can best leverage Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) within our multi-billion-dollar electrical contracting company. In Chapter 1 of our journey, chronicled in a previous article, we ventured off to Hollywood to get a big dose of how the entertainment industry leverages A/R and V/R. We returned home with many visions of opportunities for these technologies. Fast forward to today where we can now share the fruits of our labor. Fred and I are going to share one of the exciting new developments we have come up with to show that these technologies are not merely buzzwords. We willshow how we have created a solution for our business that can both increase efficiencies as well as improved quality with the expectations of lower costs and reduced schedule durations. We plan to pilot this solution in multiple job site locations in the east, west, and northwest and we will share what the future holds for RosendinMy name is Fred Meeske, Corporate Director of BIM Services at Rosendin. As Sam mentioned, when he and I went to Hollywood it was an experience for sure, and there was one big game-changing moment for us both, Virtual Reality was not just for gamers anymore. VR was finally tangible, something we could see, and it could potentially provide value for Rosendin's culture! We immediately realized that we needed to change our relationship with VR. That was our moment. We knew, however, that blending disciplines between Information Technology, BIM Technologies, and Office and Field Operations would be a challenge. But we were up for it! Once we realized that AR/VR could potentially be a real tool, one that we could hold and utilize in positive and new ways, we began Phase II of our journey and this is where our story continues.At Rosendin, we have spent 100 years working on how to leverage existing and new tools for improved efficiency and safety. Several years ago, VR/AR/MR was not on our list, much less a thought. Sam and I began working side-by-side with major LEVERAGING AUGMENTED AND VIRTUAL REALITY IN A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR COMPANYSam LamonicaIN MYOPINION
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