In the four years since Help Lightning first began pitching its services out of its Birmingham, Ala. headquarters, the company has managed to sign up 100 customers for its remote training tools including some large...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Help Lightning today announced that it has closed an $8 million investment of Series A funding. This financing will be used to scale the business. In addition,...
Business has been good for Help Lightning, a virtual expertise company founded by Bart Guthrie, a neurosurgeon based at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Guthrie wanted to be able to support surgery from 1,000 miles...
Sheba Medical Center in Israel and broadband provider Cox Communications Inc. are among several organizations that have found new uses for augmented reality during the coronavirus pandemic, and they plan to continue using the data-visualization...
Field service is always expensive. Travel is one big cost. More costly yet is response time. Under the best of circumstances, it can take 24 hours or more to get a tech on site. What...
There’s still a lot of hype surrounding Augmented Reality and there are many growing private companies. Right now, there are billions of devices (smartphones and tablets) in use that are capable of AR functionality and...
The current market environment has required new thinking from organizations; business needs to continue despite the difficult circumstances. Now, more than ever, remote assistance with a live video call and augmented reality are key to...
Gary York, CEO of Help Lightning, joins ‘Your Future Home’ to discuss how the company’s technology allows technicians to be hands-on from afar through what’s called augmented ‘merged’ reality during coronavirus. Watch the segment on...
The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic continues to have political and economic turmoil all over the world, affecting business and consumer activities. Against this backdrop, digital transformation has become crucial to enterprises for operational resilience. Other companies...