Augmented Reality offers a range of benefits for drone industry applications.

• Search and Rescue: Augmented reality can significantly enhance the capabilities of search and rescue drone operations, contributing to faster response times, more accurate decision-making, and increased overall efficiency - potentially saving lives. Overlay real-time information, such as maps, thermal imaging, hazards and vital statistics to enhance situational awareness and provide navigational assistance.

• Security/Public Safety: Augmented reality can significantly enhance security and public safety operations to develop more effective security measures, faster response times, and increased overall safety, and protection. Overlay real-time information, such as maps, floor plans, camera feeds, and sensor data, onto the security personnel's field of view to better understand the environment and potential threats, and for more effective reconnaissance missions. AR overlays can also provide visual cues, highlight targets, and display relevant information, enabling security personnel to swiftly locate and track potential threats and individuals/objects of interest.

• Mining & AEC: Augmented reality and drones in the mining and AEC industries offers multiple benefits. The ability to display augmented reality real-time data in hazardous, dark conditions with low ceilings and obstacles is very useful in mining environments. Miners can see where their drone is, from around corners, understand the telemetry and help them to identify any potential risks before putting themselves in potential danger, and helps visualise digging areas to identify the next areas to explore. In AEC, augmented realty can guide construction workers by overlaying digital instructions, measurements, and annotations directly onto the construction site.

• Maintenance & Inspection: Maintenance workers can use augmented reality glasses with their drone to quickly locate damaged equipment or infrastructure. It helps increase safety in difficult-to-navigate locations and helps the pilot see the distance between the drone and obstacles, such as the distance between the aircraft and a turbine blade during windfarm inspection.