IDTechEx: Augmenting Healthcare with Augmented Reality

BOSTON — Augmented reality and mixed reality are being used more and more in hospitals by doctors and healthcare professionals to provide them with a hands-free working environment, greater flexibility with overlaying information and processing information from its camera. IDTechEx predicts this market to be over $20Bn. IDTechEx’s report on “Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality 2020-2030” provides a detailed overview of this sector.

Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) are just one part of the “Spatial reality” family. The other member of this family is virtual reality (VR). IDTechEx predicts the AR/VR/MR market to be over $30Bn by 2030, and part of this will come from the uptake of such devices used in these high impact...