Riverside Regional Medical Center teams want to improve the cleaning of reusable endoscopes. To do this, they work with a AR application which explains step-by-step the process and, by the way,…
Year: 2018
A Hand‐Eye Calibration Method for Augmented Reality Applied to Computer‐Assisted Orthopedic Surgery
In this article authors present a new calibration method to increase the precision of the position for a Hololens. Using external system combined with embedded SLAM and a “hand‐eye” based…
Treating the fear of spiders with augmented reality at MEDICA – World Forum for Medicine
The “DigiPhobie” project, is developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT. It aims to help people with Arachnophobia because many of them has no treatment. The project use…
It’s dangerous to think virtual reality is an empathy machine
Are immersive technologies (and of course VR) THE right tools to share and to develop empathy? According to Erick Ramirez (assistant professor in philosophy at Santa Clara University) it is…
How Virtual Reality Can Help Fight Dementia
In this article you will discover “Look Back”, a therapy program from the healthcare startup Virtue. Thanks to Virtual Reality, the program help elder people with dementia syndromes to remember their…
How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Can Revolutionize Science?
In this article, Martijn Roelandse introduces a “mixed-reality Hackathon” hosted by Springer Nature and dedicated to exploration of new uses of AR and VR in sciences. It’s very interesting to…
Augmented Reality Allows Specialists to Provide Care in Remote Locations
A team for Purdue University recently presents a system to help health care workers “in the field”. With this teleoperation tool presented at the 2018 Military Health System Research Symposium, experienced surgeons…
Augmented reality for interventional oncology: proof-of-concept study of a novel high-end guidance system platform
In this article, a team from Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centre (Jerusalem) presents a AR tool to increase the precision of guidance in interventional oncology. With “Endosight” (system name) the…
Chirurgie augmentée : la FDA approuve un premier système de visualisation basé sur HoloLens
English : https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/novarad-augmented-reality-system-for-surgery-gets-fda-nod/540543/ C’est une première dans l’utilisation de la réalité augmentée pour une opération de chirurgie. La FDA vient de valider l’utilisation d’ Hololens associé au logiciel OpenSight pour…
Virtual reality for better diagnosis of mental disorders
In this article Gema Climent, CIO of Nesplora Technology and Behaviour, explains how virtual reality can be used to evaluate brain disorders. It’s an efficient way to measure cognitive function…