7th Mar 2021Columns
Microsoft has unveiled an impressive new mixed-reality platform called Microsoft Mesh that lets people “share” the same hologram using its HoloLens 2 headset.
The augmented reality (AR) headset is a technological wonder in of itself: A lightweight frame that fits comfortable over your eyes and has the entire computer built in (mostly in a largeish curved case on the back of your head).
The lenses depict AR images, or holograms, that are amazingly good, while sensors in the eye sockets track your eye movement – so, for instance, if you’re reading a page (of instructions or just email) as your eyes move down, it scrolls the text up so you can seamlessly read it. Other sensors track your hands as they move – and allow you to move objects in AR or play the piano, in one example. And the headset does this without additional controllers in your hands or clumsy tagged gloves.
UCT surgeons use holographic helmet to perform shoulder replacement surgery
5 March 2021 6:12 PM
Shoulder and Elbow Unit head at Groote Schuur, Stephen Roche explains the groundbreaking procedure.
UCT News reports that a team at Groote Schuur Hospital led by Professor Stephen Roche used a Microsoft HoloLens2 â a holographic helmet - to perform a mixed reality shoulder replacement surgery.
John Maytnam speaks to Professor Roche about the groundbreaking procedure.
Roche says he s leaning towards a shoulder and elbow speciality was a result of enduring his own sports injuries.
He explains some of these amazing new techniques and developments.
We were actually loading the patient s 3D images of the planned surgery onto the lens so we can manipulate that image of the patient s anatomy in real-time while we are operating.