Augmented Reality In Healthcare: 9 Examples

Alternate realities offer a gazillion of possibilities for healthcare. Augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) are not only empty buzzwords in medicine but valid solutions in education, vein or surgical visualisation, relaxing patients, curing PTSD, speeding up recovery in physical therapy – or even supporting medical presentations. However different these technologies are, they are often mixed up. Here are their most significant differences, and 9 examples how AR could really make a differnce in medicine. The differences between AR, VR, MR and MX Augmented reality is in a way the enhancement of the real world environment (just think of Google Glass). It gives an image of the real world, projecting digital information onto the existing surroundings. Virtual reality is an entirely immersive process with a VR glass that covers the eyes (thus reality) entirely. It shuts out the external world, offering an immersive experience. Mixed reality combines the two. It merges the real world and digital objects into an interactive reality. Augmented reality differs from its most known “relative”, virtual reality (VR) since the latter creates a 3D world completely detaching the user from reality. There are two respects in which AR is unique: users do not lose touch with reality and it puts information into eyesight as fast as possible. These distinctive features enable AR to become a driving force in the future of medicine. Virtual, augmen...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Augmented Reality Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers google glass Innovation Surgery technology GC1 AR Source Type: blogs