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Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens

posted by on Thursday February 23 2017, @02:41AM   
from the VR-hacking:-the-final-frontier dept.

takyon writes:

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.

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• ''[M$ has] relented on the triple-E'' ''[M$ has] relented on the triple-E'' (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @10:28PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @10:28PM (#470931)

  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]

  Microsoft blackmailed Samsung into a "Microsoft Android" sort of programme (Android base which runs Microsoft apps and gives users' data to Microsoft). Mary Jo Foley's headline, however, is marketing nonsense (for Microsoft). Her headline should say "Samsung Galaxy S6 offers more proof Microsoft is a blackmail and extortion company".
  [...]
  Microsoft has asked a court in Seattle to ban Kyocera's DuraForce, Hydro, and Brigadier lines of cellular phones in the U.S., alleging that they infringed seven Microsoft patents.
  [...]
  Those two companies made a patent deal several years ago (with impact on Android), so this is how Microsoft treats its "partners".

  Embrace, Extend, Extinguish: How Microsoft Plans to Get Rid of Linux/Android [techrights.org]

  Wired shamelessly labelled Microsoft spyware 'choice', saying that "[the] partnership, as detailed by Cyanogen yesterday, will allow the budding mobile OS to integrate Microsoft apps like Outlook, Office, Skype, Bing, OneDrive, and OneNote. The subtext here is that these apps can act as a replacement for the ones that Google appends to its Android releases, such as Gmail, Maps, Hangouts, and more."

  Further down it says: "That's a lot of upside with not much to lose, especially given the recent cross-platform push. And an arrangement like this makes more sense than the $70 million investment Microsoft was rumored to make back in January. Cyanogen doesn't have to feel beholden to one software suite, and Microsoft limits its financial exposure and Windows Phone conflicts."

  That's untrue. Cyanogen is imposing or at least pushing Microsoft software, it is not offering choice.

  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".

  As a kind of FUD advisory, one ought to know that Microsoft has gone "full frontal assault" mode on Android. It's usually done through proxies, e.g. biased publications with Microsoft boosters who are shamelessly misleading audiences.

  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]

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• Re:''[M$ has] relented on the triple-E'' (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Saturday February 25 2017, @07:55AM

  by coolgopher (1157) on Saturday February 25 2017, @07:55AM (#471441)

  > 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.

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