Augmented Reality Helps Eye Doctors
Many augmented reality (AR) applications have been used in marketing and promotional campaigns to add a ‘cool’ factor. But AR indeed has many more far reaching and practical use cases. The medical and educational world can now utilize AR to quickly see and understand very detailed human body muscles. I can imagine many schools and hospitals using cost effective AR technology to teach doctors in training to make learning more interactive.
A company called ARworks has prepared a scientific AR application for Top Gear Promotions in the United Arab Emirates, to demonstrate the working of Rabinizumab, an eye medical procedure developed to cure certain kinds of eye dysfunctions on a virtual eyeball.
The app runs on iOS and Android and was specially made for eye professionals to see how the medical procedure of a syringe being inserted into eyeball heals the root of the problem.
The AR app uses marker based technology, the simplest form. The virtual procedure shows the eyeball in full then half disappears. Then you can see the blurry effects of the eye disorder. The syringe in injected and the fluid released and the healing starts, showing a healthy eye. The animation can be played continuously or step by step.
The interesting part is seeing how people with the disease see the world that is with blurry black blotches a very uncomfortable and frustrating problem I am sure. This is demonstrated as a virtual layer on top of the iPad. But after the syringe injects the medicine, the dark spotty layer on the iPad starts to become clearer and you can see how the procedure instantly helps sufferers.
You can watch a demonstration video below (with a vpn if in China).
The solution was made with Unity, and the Qualcomm AR plug in, within 2 weeks, for TGP (Top Gear Promotion), one of the biggest event and exhibition Management Company in the Emirates.
デモビデオは下の動画で見ることができる。（中国にいる場合はVPNが必要）
このソリューションは、アラブ首長国連邦で最大のイベント管理企業であるTGP のために、UnityとQualcommのARプラグインを使って2週間でつくられたものだ。
デモンストレーションビデオは、下記から見ることができる（中国国内では vpn が必要）。
開発は、Unity と Qualcomm AR プラグインで2週間未満で行われた。発注主は TGP（トップギアプロモーション）といい、首長国連邦で最大のイベント・会議の運営会社の一つである。
すいません。１行訳抜けがありました。以下、追加した全文です。
同アプリは、もっとシンプルなマーカー技術を利用している。バーチャル治療では、最初に１つの眼球全体が表示され、その後半分に切断された眼球を映す。この時、この目の疾患で生じるぼやけた視覚効果が画面に表れる。注射をすると液体が注入され治癒がはじまり、その後健康な目が映し出される。動画は継続的に見ることもできるし、段階ごとに見ることもできる。
了解しました。ありがとうございます。