Lockheed Martin Selects AVATAR Partners to Reduce Time to Develop Augmented Reality

Lockheed Martin, the security and aerospace leader for advanced technology systems, selects AVATAR Partners, a global provider of Augmented Reality (AR) solutions and certified Microsoft Mixed Reality Partner, to develop an AR Advanced Visualization System (AVS) to automate model target recognition on the Microsoft HoloLens – reducing development time from weeks down to minutes. 

Lockheed Martin is known for being on the forefront of AR, proving out the substantial time and cost savings AR delivers to industry throughout the aircraft product life cycle. For this project, its Emergent Visualization (EV) Team selected AVATAR Partners to pioneer the labor-intensive aspect of AR development that involves precisely locking the AR overlay onto a target object. 

 “The Advanced Visualization System will support our EVOS team in the continued effort to streamline production-ready AR throughout the enterprise,” said Kurt Scheuringer, Software Engineer Stf, Advanced Visualization Principal Investigator at Lockheed Martin.  

“We are honored to support Lockheed Martin as they continually improve their military and industrial h world-class aerospace solutions,” said Scott Toppel, President of AVATAR Partners.  

Using a middleware library designed for integration and scalability, the Advanced Visualization System reduces the time involved in repetitive and engineering-intensive tasks involved with Augmented Reality development. It allows organizations to roll out high-quality Augmented Reality faster and with reduced risk. 

Lockheed Martin 

As a global security and aerospace company, the majority of Lockheed Martin’s business is with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. federal government agencies. In addition, Sikorsky (a Lockheed Martin Company) provides military and rotary-wing aircraft to all five branches of the U.S. armed forces along with military services and commercial operators in 40 nations. The remaining portion of Lockheed Martin’s business is comprised of international government and commercial sales of products, services and platforms.