Training welders is a pretty wasteful business. Aside from all of the man hours that go into the process, trainee welders need to use a lot of metal to practice on, which normally can’t then be used again. Using augmented reality (AR) to train welders, startup Seabery says it has saved an entire Golden Gate Bridge’s worth of metal since its founding in 2010.
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