Engineers Without Borders RealWear
XR helps deliver clean water for Ukrainian children
Engineers Without Borders is using the XR headset RealWear in Ukraine and Sierra Leone. Virsabi helps them utilize the technology for a greater good.
Do meaningful things. That is one of the Virsabi values and helping deliver clean water for Ukrainian children sure falls under that umbrella.
Hundreds of vulnerable Ukrainian children in a camp school near the front lines urgently lack access to clean drinking water. Engineers Without Borders Denmark is there trying to fix the issue and this time they have brought the XR headset RealWear Navigator 520 – a significant step towards more effective and innovative efforts.
Remote Collaboration brings aid faster
The RealWear headset enable engineers to share live footage from the field with colleagues in Denmark, making aid faster, easier, and safer. Remote collaboration like this reduces the need for extensive travel and allows experts to provide support even when they cannot be physically present.
The benefits are numerous: faster response times, lower resource consumption, and the ability to reach more people with fewer resources. This benefits not only Engineers Without Borders Denmark but also major partners such as the Danish Red Cross and the Danish Refugee Council.
With the headset, volunteers can:
- Help distressed communities and civilians worldwide in seconds.
- Provide assistance even on the front lines, amidst natural disasters, or wherever help is needed.
- Provide close-up assistance – more safely, cheaply, and sustainably – without being physically there.
A revolution in technical humanitarian aid work
On Engineers Without Borders Denmark’s LinkedIn channel, Peter Horne Zartsdahl, Secretary General of Engineers Without Borders Denmark, describes the technology as a revolution in technical humanitarian aid work.
Lasse Oszadlik, one of their experienced mission managers, who has tested the headset in Ukraine, confirms: “This technique has the potential to revolutionize humanitarian aid work. Simply put!”
Besides the project in Ukraine, Engineers Without Borders has also tested RealWear on a project in Sierra Leone.
Guidance and headset delivery
We at Virsabi guided Engineers Without Borders towards the right headset, helped them get up and running, and is providing support as needed.
“This is such a perfect case for remote collaboration using RealWear. You can have one person in the field and multiple experts across the world who can see what they see in a live Teams-meeting and guide them to perform almost any task. The camera and the microphone in the headset work under very harsh conditions, and as the users have their hands free, they can be guided to perform even complex tasks outside of their normal field of work,” says Jens Lauritsen, Chief Product Officer of Virsabi.
“Furthermore, we are quite proud to participate in this project as it is totally in line with Virsabi’s values,” says our CEO, Michael Harboe.
