Augmented Reality is a breakthrough technology that could considerably ease execution of complex operations.
Augmented Reality mixes virtual and actual reality, making available to the user new tools to ensure efficiency
in the transfer of knowledge for several processes and in several environments. Various solutions based on
Augmented Reality have been proposed by the research community: particularly in maintenance operations
Augmented Reality tools have offered new perspectives and have promised dramatic improvements. On the
other side Augmented Reality is an extremely demanding technology and, at the present day, it is still affected
by serious flaws that undermine its implementations in the industrial context.
This paper presents examples of Augmented Reality applications and shows the feasibility of Augmented
Reality solutions in maintenance tasks, underlining advantages it could introduce. At the same time the principal
flaws of Augmented Reality are commented and possible lines of investigation are suggested.
Keywords: Augmented Reality, Maintenance operations