A fairly hefty collection of industrial figures have formed the latest IoT-focused alliance this week, with the launch of the Augmented Reality for the Enterprise Alliance (AREA). The more notable founding members include Boeing, Bosch, the IEEE and the EPRI, and collectively, the group aims to accelerate the adoption of augmented reality tech in the enterprise. Broadly speaking, augmented reality (AR) tech is most familiar to consumers through devices like Google Glass, which overlays a user’s view of the world with contextually relevant information. In that example, the glasses alone can’t be relied upon to process the world around them by themselves. A much wider device-level deployment is needed to feed extra information to them, and devices like Bluetooth and…