AR maintenance & remote assist, on the same backbone.
The DrillXR platform extends from VR training into AR maintenance and remote assistance — guiding technicians through procedures and connecting them to remote experts, with the same compliance record.
Guided AR procedures
Step-by-step maintenance overlaid on the equipment in front of the technician.
Remote expert assist
A specialist sees what the technician sees and annotates the live view.
Hands-free checklists
Voice-driven inspection and sign-off, captured to the same compliance record.
One backbone
AR runs on the same DrillXR platform as your VR training — no second system.
From training the worker to guiding the work
DrillXR’s VR training builds competence before a worker touches the equipment. AR maintenance, the next phase on our roadmap, extends that same backbone to the moment the work actually happens — guiding a technician through a procedure on the live asset in front of them. The logic is continuous: you train people to a standard in VR safety training, you prove that competence on the compliance platform, and then you support them in the field with augmented reality that keeps the correct procedure in view while their hands stay on the job.
Crucially, AR maintenance is not a separate product to integrate. It runs on the same DrillXR platform as your VR programme, reports into the same record, and respects the same role and site structure. One backbone, two surfaces — the headset for training, augmented reality for the task.
Guided procedures and hands-free checklists
Guided AR procedures overlay each step directly onto the equipment, so a technician sees which valve to close, which panel to open and which torque to apply without looking away to a manual or a phone. The procedure follows the work rather than the other way round, which reduces skipped steps and the errors that come from improvising on unfamiliar assets. For inspection and sign-off, hands-free, voice-driven checklists let a technician confirm each item while keeping both hands on the task — and every confirmation is captured to the same compliance record as a completed training drill.
The benefit compounds for organisations that already run DrillXR for training: the worker who rehearsed a procedure in VR meets the same procedure, structured the same way, when they perform it for real. The gap between “trained” and “doing it correctly on the floor” narrows, and the evidence of both lives in one place.
Remote expert assist
When a problem exceeds what is on the checklist, remote expert assist lets a specialist see exactly what the technician sees and annotate the live view — circling a component, marking a sequence, pointing to the next step. A senior engineer in a central location can support a technician at any plant without travelling to it. For multi-site operators, that means scarce expertise is no longer bottlenecked by geography, and a junior technician at a remote facility is never truly alone with a critical asset.
Target use-cases
AR maintenance is aimed at the high-hazard, asset-heavy operations DrillXR already serves across industry: planned and breakdown maintenance on production lines, inspection and sign-off of safety-critical equipment, commissioning of new assets, and complex isolation procedures where getting the sequence right is the difference between a routine job and an incident. These are exactly the procedures already modelled in the VR training library, which is why the two surfaces reinforce each other.
On the roadmap, on the same platform
AR maintenance is a deliberate next phase rather than a separate bet. By building it on the platform that already runs your VR training and multiplayer drills, we make sure the same identity, the same role structure and the same compliance reporting carry straight through from training into the field. Organisations that adopt DrillXR for training today are building the foundation that AR maintenance plugs into tomorrow.
If guided AR procedures, hands-free checklists and remote expert assist map to problems you are solving now, register your interest and we will include you when AR maintenance rolls out. In the meantime, the fastest way to experience the backbone it builds on is a live walkthrough of DrillXR VR training and the compliance platform.
One compliance backbone, training to task
The reason AR maintenance belongs on the DrillXR platform rather than in a separate tool is the compliance backbone it inherits. A scored VR drill and a hands-free AR sign-off are not two unrelated events; they are two points on the same record of competence. When a technician rehearses an isolation procedure in VR safety training and later performs it under AR guidance, both attempts attach to the same person, the same role and the same site. An auditor can follow a continuous thread from “trained to the standard” through to “performed the task correctly in the field,” without reconciling two systems that were never designed to talk to each other.
That continuity is what turns AR from a productivity gadget into a genuine safety and assurance layer. The same identity, role structure and reporting that the compliance platform already applies to training simply extend to the task, so the evidence base your safety team relies on grows richer rather than more fragmented as you adopt AR.
Roles and sectors AR maintenance is built for
AR maintenance is aimed squarely at the people who keep critical assets running. Maintenance technicians gain a procedure that follows the work instead of a manual they have to leave the job to consult. Inspectors gain a hands-free way to capture sign-off as they go. Shift supervisors gain visibility of what was done and how, and the scarce senior engineers gain the ability to support several sites a day without leaving their desk. These roles recur across the same high-hazard industries DrillXR already serves — heavy manufacturing, chemicals and process, energy, and asset-heavy logistics — where a missed step on a live asset is the difference between a routine intervention and an incident.
Registering interest is straightforward and it shapes what we build next. Tell us which procedures cost you the most time, rework or risk today, and we will factor them into the AR roadmap and include you when the capability rolls out. In the meantime, the quickest way to understand the backbone AR will plug into is a live walkthrough of DrillXR VR training, or a focused pilot on one of your own crews. Many teams that adopt training first find the AR transition almost trivial precisely because the platform, roles and records are already in place.
One backbone, VR and AR.
Register interest and we'll include you when AR maintenance rolls out.