This Wednesday, Taqtile released its Manifest Maker application, an augmented reality (AR) remote guidance software for enterprise and industrial environments. Taqtile’s free solution provides a suite for on-site experts to create custom digital, step-by-step instructions for deskless and dispersed workers.
Manifest Maker version 1.0.0 is available for head-mounted AR devices and iPads via Apple’s online storefront. The device is not yet available on Android or iPhone models.
Manifest Maker sets itself apart from Taqtile’s immersive remote guidance solutions portfolio by allowing on-site experts to create their own training solutions.
Closer Look at Taqtile’s Manifest Maker
The toolkit bypasses time-consuming creation and lengthy learning curves when developing custom immersive training programmes by allowing on-site experts to record their video feed while performing a procedure.
The application lets an expert annotate their recording with insights and instructions using accompanying videos, screenshots, images, auto-transcribed text, and scans of existing manuals to enhance their training guide.
When on-site experts create their AR guide, they can use simple tools to distribute their work quickly. Taqtile uses simple drag-and-drop pipeline tools, still image creation tools, auto-transcription features, automated dictation and paper manual scanning to enable a low-barrier content creation suite.
John Tomizuka, the Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer at Taqtile, added that creating digitized procedures for use by deskless workers is difficult, time-consuming, and expensive.
He added,
“The elegant simplicity of Manifest Maker will enable users in any industry to simply and quickly create work instructions that can be augmented and shared by deskless workers across the enterprise with an AR-enabled platform like Manifest”
Taqtile expects users to harness Manifest Maker to assist with operational, maintenance, and repair procedures, such as replacing failed components in industrial equipment or inspecting fleets of vehicles.
In addition to step-by-step remote guidance tools, Manifest Maker allows a workforce to access other immersive content like holograms and digital twins.
More on Manifest
Taqtile’s Manifest ecosystem includes the recent Maker toolkit. The firm also has a portfolio of enterprise-grade immersive solutions that enable workers to stream real-time 3D (RT3D) instructional visualizations with greater efficiency and quality.
In August, Taqile partnered with Microsoft to integrate its service’s Azure Remote Rendering tools into the Manifest toolkit. The partnership boosts onboarding, training, and operational tasks by providing workers with more detailed AR environments and smoother immersive remote communications.
In April, Taqtile established a Chicago training site which provides hands-on AR simulation training for frontline workers, customers, and enterprise partners.
Project partner Oracle assisted Taqtile in establishing the site, which teaches attendees how Industry 4.0 solutions can affect industries like utilities, construction, engineering, communications, and manufacturing.
Taqtile’s portfolio is seeing success across a series of vertical markets. The firm joined the International Airlines Group (IAG)’s accelerator program in July and also signed a US Army contract in March to leverage AR remote guidance tools for various clients.
