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Simulation: TED Talk ... The Next Big Thing? ... Augmented Reality, Is It Ready for Primetime? Medicine?

2010-03-24T18:16:21.568Z

Colleagues,

Augmented Reality is purported to be "The Next Big Thing". Check out this video and think about how these advanced visualization tools might be applied in medicine ...

In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft.

About Blaise Aguera y Arcas

Blaise Aguera y Arcas' background is as multidimensional as the visions he helps create. In the 1990s, he authored patents on both video compression and 3D visualization techniques ...

He also created Seadragon (acquired by Microsoft in 2006), the visualization technology that gives Photosynth its amazingly smooth digital rendering and zoom capabilities. Photosynth itself is a vastly powerful piece of software capable of taking a wide variety of images, analyzing them for similarities, and grafting them together into an interactive three-dimensional space. This seamless patchwork of images can be viewed via multiple angles and magnifications, allowing us to look around corners or "fly" in for a (much) closer look. Simply put, it could utterly transform the way we experience digital images.

He's now the architect of Bing Maps at Microsoft, where he leads a team of researchers and engineers with strengths in social media, computer vision and graphics.

Simulation: Portable Operating Theatre on BBC news

2010-02-25T12:46:46.791Z

Dr. Roger Kneebone present the Distrited Simulation concept for a piece by the BBC. He mentions many of the aspects that Studiohead designed and made, including the operating theatre lamp and the sound and video control interface.

Simulation: "Folding@Home"; How Your Video Game System Can Help Cure Cancer

2009-02-09T11:49:23.489Z

Gamers Can Now Help Stanford University Researchers with the "Folding@Home" Project

Now you can help fight cancer simply by playing video games from the comfort of your own home. Researchers at Stanford University have teamed up with Sony Computer Entertainment America, the makers of PlayStation, on the "Folding@Home" project. Folding@Home helps researchers study the folding, and more important, misfolding of human proteins, which can lead to understanding the cause and cure of diseases like cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and cystic fibrosis.

In order to study protein folding, researchers need more than just one super computer, but the massive processing power of thousands of networked computers. Previously, PCs have been the only option for scientists studying this, but now, they have a new, more powerful tool—PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3). The PS3's cell processor is about 20 times faster at folding than a standard PC, giving even greater results in real time, allowing scientists to not only see but navigate the molecule in 3D.

To take part voluntarily, gamers just need to click on the Folding@Home icon within the main menu of the PS3. Then whenever their game system is idle, it will automatically begin the real-time simulations and the PS3's graphic chip actually allows you to watch the process first hand. You can even manipulate and study the protein strand yourself.

Produced for Sony Computer Entertainment America

Imaging: NASA Advances in Medical Technology

2008-10-25T03:05:09.661Z

Segment describes how NASA research has been the driving force behind new medical technology. The segment begins with a brief flashback of how the practice of medicine has evolved from X rays to current Cat scans. The Advances in Medical Tech segment describes how the ARTEMIS technology combines CAT scans with virtual imaging technology to provide doctors with greater precision in their operations.

Simulation: SimPraxis™ Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Trainer Demo

2008-10-13T21:20:03.461Z

Demonstration of Red Llama's new cognitive surgical simulator in action. More information about the Trainer and the SimPraxis interactive simulation software platform is available on Red Llama's website: www.redllamainc.com.