Microsoft is partnering with Stryker to help redesign operating rooms:
For as much as many are focused on the gaming and consumer-level productivity potentialities of XR, much of the progress in the field is happening in other markets, like industry and medicine. To wit, Microsoft announced that it's partnering with a medical technology company called Stryker to use HoloLens to design better operating rooms.
In a blog post, Microsoft explained that, "Everything from lighting, to equipment, tools, and even patient orientation, varies depending on who is using the operating room at any given moment. Equipment placement is critical as it effects [sic] ergonomics, efficiency, and task load, all of which have the potential to burden staff and slow procedures." To design better operating rooms, the company said, heads of multiple surgical disciplines need to physically meet to solve these issues, and a 3D design environment can help them do so much more efficiently.
From the blog post:
You may not be aware of it, but surgical disciplines from general, to urologic, orthopedic, cardiac, and ear nose and throat (ENT) use shared operating rooms. These specialties have widely different needs when it comes to operating room configuration and setup. Everything from lighting, to equipment, tools, and even patient orientation, varies depending on who is using the operating room at any given moment. Equipment placement is critical as it effects ergonomics, efficiency, and task load, all of which have the potential to burden staff and slow procedures.
Today, for hospitals to successfully design operating rooms that will accommodate these various medical disciplines, a critical meeting must take place. In this meeting, the heads of each surgical discipline, along with their staff, are physically present to outline the desired layout and implementation needed to successfully complete their procedures. This is a complicated and time-consuming process where people and a complex array of technology and equipment are shuffled around to determine what goes where, and when, to see how it will all fit.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday February 23 2017, @05:23AM
Ummm... would you like that?
Say, where would you like to go today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Thursday February 23 2017, @06:31AM
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not unhappy they've relented on the triple-E! I was just offering it as another example of them not seeming to do anything well/not take anything serious any more.
(I mean, they don't even toss chairs like they used to...)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @10:28PM
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
M$ continues to extort via patent trolling, in particular in the realm of Android where they still claim that their closed proprietary stuff is somehow in the FOSS offerings.
Microsoft Hates Linux - Part II - Patent Lawsuits Against Android/Linux Still Going On, New Ones Filed [techrights.org]
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish: How Microsoft Plans to Get Rid of Linux/Android [techrights.org]
As part of the settlements of M$'s bogus claims against these entities, what M$ does is insist that they become "partners" with M$ and that M$'s closed proprietary apps be pre-installed on those "partners" systems.
Note that Cyanogen recently went through a major upheaval after it had become a M$ "partner".
Clearly, you have been consuming the M$-friendly propaganda and swallowing it whole.
M$ remains evil and intent on world domination.
Since they no longer offer anything that can't be gotten gratis these days, M$ is currently all about abuse.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Saturday February 25 2017, @07:55AM
> Clearly, you have been consuming the M$-friendly propaganda and swallowing it whole.
Actually, I haven't seen much of MS at all these last few years. From what you quote, it sounds like they've started picking on people their own size, which is nice. Overall though, MS, Google, Apple... not happy where either of them are going, and don't get me started on Facebork.