Becker's Healthcare May 26, 2020
Multiple London-based hospitals are teaming up with Microsoft to provide select physicians with mixed-reality headsets to limit direct contact with COVID-19 patients, according to Business Insider.
The HoloLens headsets feature sensors and a camera around the headband, allowing physicians to share their point of view with clinicians remotely. Inside the visor of the headset is a small screen that projects holographic images for the user to see. Hospitals using Microsoft’s technology include University College London Hospitals, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay and the Leeds Teaching Hospital.
“Instead of you seeing my face, you would see my first-person view, and you would pop up as a holographic image and I would see you projected into the clinical space,” Dr....
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