Augmented Reality

Dom Raban, CEO of Xploro, and Pamela Kato, former CEO of HopeLab and owner of P. M. Kato Consulting, will be talking about their efforts at the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Digital Event (7-11 September 2020). 

Rick Beberman, CEO of Sira Medical, demonstrates his company's VR/AR surgery planning tool, which he says can save up to 20% of operating room time and provide additional revenue opportunities.

Students and teachers can effortlessly switch between VR and the real world with just one click in laboratory lessons, learning from the virtual human body and real cadavers simultaneously.

NASA stakeholders discuss the potential for technologies supporting astronauts' mental health and cognitive functioning during a mission. 

Andrew Rebhan, consultant at The Advisory Board, discusses new advances in artificial intelligence, biopsychosocial IT, internet of things, 3D printing, augmented reality and more.

Not only can augmented reality and virtual reality help patients better understand their condition, but the technologies can help train residents in different approaches to surgery, says Tristan van Doormaal, a neurosurgeon at UMC Utrecht in the Netherlands.

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The augmented reality headset is priced at $3,500, while the Azure Kinect developer kits will run $399.

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Companies like Swift Medical, Tissue Analytics and Healthy.io replace inaccurate measurements with reliable ones, and that's just the beginning.