Applying Hot New Tech Platforms to Medical Devices

Last October I spoke with Derek Mathers, director of advanced applications development at Worrell, about how augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality technologies are being applied in medtech. Minneapolis, MN-based Worrell is a global design firm that specializes in healthcare innovation and strategy. Join us at BIOMEDevice Boston, April 18-19, 2018, to hear more about how technologies like augmented reality are transforming the product development process. Use promo code "MDDI" for 20% off conference registration and free expo access.   In the Facebook Live video below, Mathers shares some fascinating insights about how new technologies like augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality are being applied in medical device development. "We find new technology very interesting, and we also think that developments in the consumer electronics space are inevitably going to translate down through medtech, even though it takes a little bit longer, just due to regulation," Mathers said. One of the things I found most interesting from the conversation was the way Mathers defined different types of what he calls visualization technologies, and the specific examples he provided of companies using these technologies in healthcare. Augmented reality, or AR, is the type of technology used in the mobile gaming app Pokemon Go. AR overlays a computer-generated image onto a user's view of the real world.  "AR is very useful for surgical navigation, literally giving...
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