Is Holographic Mixed and Augmented Reality Taking Off in 2018?
In the midst of a hurricane of ideas, fresh solutions and business challenges, augmented reality startups are the driving force that supports humans in complex and creative problem-solving by enabling analysis of huge amounts of various data types and solving tasks previously impossible to resolve.
Where can AR be used in 2018? Have increased adoption across the retail and e-commerce boosted the augmented reality market? Let’s find out if augmented reality is something worth investing in.
Enhanced Medical Mixed Reality. How About a Holographic Doctor?
Holography is clearly a game-changer when it comes to improving healthcare or even firefighting, as it enables users to achieve significant productivity gains and makes abstract concepts around smart environments super apparent.
Due to seismic shifts in the mixed reality development pharmaceutical and health services companies started looking for effective solutions to achieve greater agility when treating patients with severe diseases. A company called Silver Chain Group have designed a jaw-dropping technology to empower nursing staff while on home visits with hands-free data and also to alleviate access to consultant advice and evaluation from remote doctors.
EMMR is the first in the world holographic doctor’s visit, allowing the nursing staff to see all the patient data floating in front of them. While visiting a patient in a holographic form, the doctor can see through the Microsoft HoloLens what exactly the nurse is doing, see live biometric data and talk to the patient as if they were in the same room. Face to face consultations and treatment discussions made in real time without the need of being in a particular place creates a seamless customer experience of patient care.
Immersive Learning Experience
Medical schools acknowledge the benefits of mixed reality, focusing on its ability to revolutionize the way we learn about the human body. There’s a tremendous opportunity for universities and colleges to change cadavers for the AR capabilities of the HoloLens. Some universities — such as Case Western in Cleveland — have been changing the way medical students learn anatomy by bringing mixed and augmented reality into the classes.
Depth sensors and tracking devices allow a person wearing HoloLens see the holographic objects in 3D and interact with them. The project allows learners to explore the human body in 3D and take apart over 6,000 different body structures from our lungs to our brains. In 2019, Case Western plans to open a health education campus that will be using AR capabilities of the HoloLens.
Augmented Reality Helmet for Firefighters
While new performance and mind-blowing AR features are emerging, and digital and technological advances are converging, industry executives need to effectively integrate the cutting-edge technologies in the dangerous environments that need “superpowers”.
By applying augmented reality principles, a company called Qwake Technologies has developed a special system, which aims to help firefighters see through the smoke in hazardous fires. The system produces outlines of objects so that the rescue services workers could see what is in front of them and navigate more quickly through the buildings.
“They can use a thermal camera which typically requires firefighters to have their hands occupied and the opposite — they need to be pulling bodies out or they need to be smashing through doors so that they could get to the people and it just enables humans to see through the smoke and get to where they need,” company’s executive said. “It’s really giving them x-ray vision.”
Final Words
According to Global Market Insights, augmented reality market size is said to grow at around 65% from 2017 to 2024. So, it is only a matter of time before all the industries start using augmented reality to provide their clients with far more better service – such as quick healthcare assistance, precise and decent education, and high-quality rescue services. Despite the fact that the world yet perceives like mixed reality as some sci-fi concept, AR is ready to go and becomes a standard for all industry fields. If you want to know how much augmented reality project development costs, or just want to learn more about this technology, contact our AR team and we’ll do our best to answer all your questions.
