Category: Platform

March 19, 2018

Watch the heart do its job with Cardiolens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyheMrkUiIY HoloLens project tracks the heart and visualizes its activity for the wearer Visualizing a person’s heartbeat is nothing new in the medical field. Electrocardiograms have been around since Willem Einthoven invented the first...

Idea Lab / Microsoft HoloLens / Mixed Reality

March 9, 2018

HoloHear translates the spoken word to ASL in mixed-reality

Imagine if deaf people could use HoloLens to understand speech. Google Translate is an extremely useful tool, but it doesn’t work for every language. American Sign Language is absent from Google Translate, but an...

Clinical Utility / HTC Vive / Neurology / Pediatrics

March 5, 2018

Precision VR™ visualization platform aids pediatric neurosurgery

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland is the first stand-alone children’s hospital to acquire the Precision Virtual Reality™ visualization platform by Surgical Theater. Brain surgery can be a frightening prospect, and that’s even more true when...

HTC Vive / Patient Well-Being / Vision

February 27, 2018

VR “Canetroller” makes virtual worlds accessible for the visually impaired

‘Canetroller’ uses haptic, audio feedback to simulate virtual space for the blind Most traditional virtual reality systems are based at least partially around what the user can see with his or her eyes. This...

Oculus Rift / Patient Well-Being / Training

February 23, 2018

A look into the development of Fjord’s virtual reality wheelchair training program

https://www.youtube.chttps://vimeo.com/214086656om/watch?v=9uOETcuFjbE In recent years, many innovative companies have utilized the power of technology to make life a little bit easier for people who are wheelchair bound. One of these companies is Fjord, whose tagline...

Cardiovascular / Microsoft HoloLens / Training

February 21, 2018

INSIGHT HEART educates through an AR expedition inside the heart

https://vimeo.com/190273764om/watch?v=9uOETcuFjbE Many innovative companies have been founded around the incredible potential augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed-reality have in training medical students—especially because it brings text-book learning to life. In line with this, INSIGHT HEART is...

HTC Vive / Prosthetics / Virtual Reality

February 19, 2018

OrthoVR brings a sculptor’s touch to virtual prosthetic design

Nia Technologies is solving problems in configuring prosthetics Where there’s a problem, there’s a solution, and the complicated world of prosthetics is no exception. Design tools are often cumbersome and difficult to use, but...

Cardiovascular / Clinical Utility / Microsoft HoloLens

February 12, 2018

SentiAR adds real-time holographic visualization to cardiac ablation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZghC1X-Mk0g by Kristi Hansen Onkka — A new dimension to clinical practice I recently talked with Jim Howard, the CEO and co-founder of SentiAR. The St. Louis-based startup uses technology originally built by founders Dr....

Microsoft HoloLens / Obstetrics/Maternity / Training

January 22, 2018

LucinaAR pairs with HoloLens for augmented reality birthing simulation training

CAE Healthcare recently released LucinaAR, an augmented reality birthing simulation training application that is bringing obstetric operating skills training to the next level. LucinaAR employs Microsoft’s HoloLens and it includes life-sized models of the mother...

HTC Vive / Idea Lab / Trends

December 19, 2017

Journey through the body as a cell with OneReality’s “The Cell – Circadian Rhythm” VR experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D1nXxpohZI By Kindle Lynn Reeder — What if you knew the cause as to why you automatically woke up every day at 7:17am? Or why at 3:24 in the afternoon you felt sluggish and...