Field Service

The dispatch decision is usually made before anyone's seen the fault

The technician describes what they see. The expert listens, makes a judgment call, and sends someone out — or doesn't. It's a guess dressed up as a decision.

ContinuumAR changes what that exchange looks like. The expert gets a live video feed through the technician's AR headset. They see the fault directly. They annotate it, run through a diagnostic checklist, and decide from actual evidence rather than a verbal account that might have missed the most relevant detail.

Fewer unnecessary dispatches. And when a truck does go out, the expert has already narrowed the cause — so the visit is shorter.

Worth knowing
$300–700
Average cost of a single truck roll — labor, travel, and the time the fault sat open
5 min
From QR scan to live expert call on the AR headset
99.9%
Platform uptime — available when the fault happens, not just during business hours
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The real cost

It's not just the wasted trip. It's that nothing was recorded.

A truck roll that turns out to be unnecessary is an obvious cost. But there's a less obvious one: even the necessary visits tend to start from scratch. By the time the expert arrives on site, whatever was said during the initial call is half-remembered and nobody wrote it down.

So when that fault comes back six months later — and it usually does — the same sequence repeats. Same travel, same re-diagnosis, same overhead.

ContinuumAR records every session. The call, the transcript, annotations the expert drew, the checklist they ran through — all of it stays on the ticket. The AI assistant can surface a prior resolution in a natural language query before the next call even starts. Not a perfect substitute for institutional knowledge, but a reasonable facsimile of it.

Fewer dispatches, and shorter visits when they do happen. That's what most customers notice first.

How it actually works

What a session looks like from both ends

The technician's side

They log the fault as a ticket and open it on their RealWear or Six15 AR headset. Everything from here is voice-operated — gloves stay on, hands stay on the equipment. One voice command places the call.

A diagnostic checklist can run alongside the call. Steps appear one at a time in the headset display. The technician confirms each by voice, responses log automatically. If they hit something they're unsure about, they can escalate from the same interface.

The expert's side

They connect from a browser — nothing installed. They receive a live HD video feed from the headset camera: exactly what the technician is looking at, stable, not a shaky handheld phone. They can draw on that feed in real time — arrows, labels, highlights that appear in the technician's field of view as they draw them.

When the call ends, the recording, transcript, completed checklist, and any snapshots all save to the ticket. The expert can also query past sessions on the same equipment before they pick up the next call.

The specifics

What you're actually getting

Supported headsets
ContinuumAR runs on Android-based industrial AR headsets: the RealWear Navigator 500, Navigator 520, HMT-1, and the Six15 ST1-RA. Not smartphones, not consumer tablets. Purpose-built field devices with voice control and cameras made for close-up industrial work. The APK deploys and updates via RealWear Cloud.
Login
Technicians scan a QR code with the headset camera — no typing, no password screen. Admins regenerate and resend codes from the admin panel. Unique ID login is enforced, and multi-device login can be restricted. The expert needs only a Windows browser.
Session records
Every call produces a recording and a transcript. Snapshots, completed checklist, and notes sit alongside those on the ticket. The AI chatbot retrieves this history via natural language — no manual searching through old tickets.
Connectivity
A network strength indicator shows in the headset throughout a call, so both parties see degradation before a drop. Missed calls are tracked and logged. Checklist progress and any snapshots taken before a drop are preserved on the ticket.
5 min
Setup time per headset — cloud-based, nothing to provision on-site
99.9%
Uptime — there when the fault happens
24/7
Support

Questions we get asked

What headsets does this run on?+
The RealWear Navigator 500, Navigator 520, HMT-1, and the Six15 ST1-RA. All Android-based industrial AR headsets. Not smartphones, not iOS, not consumer tablets. The remote expert connects from a Windows browser — nothing installed on their end.
Can the expert annotate while the call is live?+
Yes. They draw on the video feed from their browser and the marks appear in the technician's headset display in real time. Arrows, labels, highlights. Those annotations are also saved in the session recording on the ticket.
What if the expert misses the call?+
Missed calls are tracked and logged. Activity notifications surface changes since last login, so unacknowledged calls don't just disappear into an inbox.
What does the AI assistant actually do?+
It retrieves ticket status, prior call summaries, notes, and session history via natural language queries. If this fault has appeared before, the expert can pull that record before the call rather than starting from scratch.
How long does setup take for a new customer?+
Around five minutes per device. Cloud-based, no on-premises infrastructure. User accounts, device assignments, and QR codes are all managed through the admin interface.

Talk to our team

Tell us about your field service setup — where the dispatches are happening, what equipment is involved, how the current escalation process works. We'll show you what ContinuumAR looks like in that context.

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