Looking Inside Your Body In 3D – The Curiscope Virtuali-tee Review

We first reviewed the Curiscope Virtuali-tee a few years ago and found it futuristic, forward-looking and fun. Whenever these three attributes characterise a technology, we know it’s a jackpot. The Virtuali-tee Human Body T-shirt created by Curiscope has all three qualifiers – and one more. It’s our secret weapon for blowing people’s minds with augmented reality. Four years have passed since we first laid on hands on it, so it was time to take another look at it and see if our opinions have changed. Spoiler alert: no, we still like it. What is it? The T-shirt and the accompanying app show colorful human organs and animations to help visualise how our bodies work. The 3D images look so real that physicians often ask Dr. Meskó if these are really his insides. No, they are not. Turning abstract biological concepts into magic The UK-based company, Curiscope creates immersive learning experiences in virtual and augmented reality. They developed the Virtuali-tee T-shirt, through which you can see the inner parts of the human body through realistic holograms. Virtuali-tee brings anatomy to life to such a point of illusion which already presents Arthur C. Clarke’s famous third law. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Ed Barton, CEO and Co-founder of Curiscope, told The Medical Futurist at the time of our first review that they started the company with the belief that AR would let humans re-imagine how they...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Augmented Reality Medical Education Anatomy digital future Health Healthcare Medicine STEM review MedEd Source Type: blogs