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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 RedGreen on Thursday February 23 2017, @08:24AM
"I don't know, it's an uneasy feeling to say the least."
I always thought the same when I heard about their Windows for Warships effort, though they do not seem to have started any wars yet doing it.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/26/windows_boxes_at_sea/ [theregister.co.uk]
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @09:09AM
This kind of stuff during a war?!!?! Good Lord!
I had to look at your URL several times to make sure it wasn't the onion.
Micrium's uCOSII for that kind of thing!
As far as the pretty eye-candy displays go, new companies such as Nextium are coming up with some beautiful architectures which isolate the eye-candy from the serious stuff.
Once you get "hold harmless" clauses into the contracts, people do the damndest things!
If there is one thing those military badge-hats don't seem to have down pat is that machines do not respect authority. They do what they are told to do. And that may not be the badge-hat's orders, rather it may be some hacker thousands of miles away in a hostile country.
If it was not for my own personal experience with business types, I would have thought the whole thing was an April Fool joke.
Some of those sunnavabitchez would sell their own momma's pacemaker for a buck. And they invariably hang out around the badge-hats with that smirky shit-eating grin on their face, hand outstretched for a shake, quickly followed with a pen for signature and legal commitment. They then walk away with huge bonuses and hold-harmless crap leaving the badge-hats with stuff that does not work right and an outsourced workforce that made it at the lowest possible cost. The tax payer is forced to finance the whole shenanigans.