Rolls-Royce envisions bridges of ships ten years from now will be packed with augmented reality technology and equipped with smart workstations.
The company, working with the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), has introduced a series of innovative designs proposing workstations capable of recognising automatically who has sat in front of them.
The bridge-windows, Rolls-Royce proposes, could be turned into augmented reality displays, showing navigation information, weather alerts and routes and locations of other ship in the area.
Seafarers, travelling on tugs, cargo ships or platform supply vessels could have such technology at hand by 2025.
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