The open housing

Eli has a gearbox open at Quay Mill. The person who knows the procedure is on the night ferry, and the available manual is a flat image on a phone. Eli needs both hands for the work and must still see the machine, nearby hazards, and co-workers.

This is an information problem in a physical place. The useful system would show the next verified step close to the task without asking the mechanic to keep looking away or to work through a blocked view.

Augmented reality, usually called AR, adds digital information to a view of the real world. Virtual reality, or VR, replaces the surrounding view with a computer-made environment. The difference determines which job each tool can do safely.

At Quay Mill, the immediate question is practical: what can help Eli complete one repair step while keeping the room visible and providing a safe fallback if the information is wrong or unavailable?