Hololens

This is going to be way huger than we think. This is making significant strides in enterprise applications while being nearly unheard of among the general public.

The other day I met someone who works for Thyssenkrupp. I mentioned a technology I follow that they're using and she immediately said "Hololens." It's Utility is well known.

I have 95% + Confidence, Microvision is in a coming significant release of this product. (And the product will "take the world by storm.")

Techspective

This week Microsoft had an update for their HoloLens technology which, I think, currently has the best shot at defining one of the major evolutionary pivots for personal computers. Right now, it reminds me a lot of the early days of the PC market. But instead of replacing calculators, typewriters, mainframe computers, and rolodexes this technology is replacing manuals, remote trainers, tablets, and wearable PCs.

What is particularly fascinating given how slow PCs came into hospitals, is that the HoloLens was just certified for medical procedures. This may help address my fear of hospitals by preventing problems like that poor woman that recently went in for back surgery and came out with one less Kidney (surprisingly she wasn’t particularly thankful).
But much like the PC evolved into a far more comprehensive tool, I expect HoloLens (and augmented reality (AR) in general) to evolve as well—not only in hardware (I’m really looking forward to seeing HoloLens 2 next year) but in how and where it is used. You see, I can foresee a time when we might put this thing on in the morning and not take it off until right before we go to sleep (if then).

Interesting new Picture on MicroVision's Facebook Page

MicroVision Facebook

Up to even more...

The Things We Haven't Though of Yet.

I have said often -- people will come up with ways to use PicoP that haven't even occurred to us. Always in focus projected images will have many uses. There are a lot of very creative people in the world who will be able to think up new ways to use the tool in ways we haven't thought of yet.

This is one of those ways:

Full Article at VT Vox

Design firm Teague conceptualised an enticing solution: a doctor in a box. You would buy this affordable kit at CVS or Walgreens, then take it home to experience a professional doctor visit teleconferenced into the privacy of your own bathroom.

The kit would contain two pieces: One piece is like a smart stethoscope, capable of hearing your heart or lungs, but also peeking into your ear with a fibre optic light and taking high-definition images on the surface of your skin. The second piece is a teleconferencing camera that sticks to your mirror. It can beam video of you to your doctor, but it can also track your body’s movement, heart rate, and temperature. Plus, it project images onto you or your mirror, thanks to an integrated pico projector.....

“Rather than the doctor saying, ‘left a bit, up a bit,’ it puts a circle on the chest and turns green when you get it to the right spot,” explains Roger Jackson, creative director at Teague. Other functions on the probe, like the otoscope (you know, that thing the doctor sticks in your ear to check if you have an ear infection), have been designed to be bulky and soft to make sure that even children could use it without hurting themselves.

As for its feasibility, that is maybe the most intriguing part of Teague’s concept: The designers think that they could actually create it, not in five or 10 years, but in the immediate future.

Not a recent video, but haven't seen it before.

I believe the pumpkin is just a play on words with part of the tool.

It does show a use consideration for PicoP




http://article.wn.com/view/2014/04/30/Carestream_s_Newest_Image_Acquisition_MiniPACS_Software_Rece_4/

New Patent -- & Rare editorial Comment

Tiny Projectors are going to be EVERYWHERE. 

We are a visual data dependent society and getting more so. Whether that data is text or video information, tiny projectors are how we're going to get that information from our increasingly powerful (and shrinking in size) portable computers.

This patent is just another example of how video can be usefully delivered just where it is needed.

Will Microvision dominate the tiny projector market? Maybe. Will they get enough to make the holders of their stock wealthy? Almost certainly yes. -- end editorial comment --

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On-board tool tracking system and methods of computer assisted surgery
WO 2013052187 A2

ABSTRACT
A number of improvements are provided relating to computer aided surgery utilizing an on tool tracking system. The various improvements relate generally to both the methods used during computer aided surgery and the devices used during such procedures. Other improvements relate to the structure of the tools used during a procedure and how the tools can be controlled using the OTT device. Still other improvements relate to methods of providing feedback during a procedure to improve either the efficiency or quality, or both, for a procedure including the rate of and type of data processed depending upon a CAS mode.

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Microvision specifically is mentioned several times:
"Projector" is mentioned 180 times.

[00073] The final subsystem is an indicator to provide the surgeon with OTT CAS appropriate outputs related to when his movement of the tool, as well as in relation is to the intended resection within a real time OTT CAS step. The indicator can be any variety of means to align/locate the surgical path with the intended resection: a panel of lights that sign directions to correct the surgeon, a speaker with audio instructions, a screen, touchscreen or iPhone or iPAd like device (i.e., a so-called "smartphone") on the OTT equipped tool displaying 3d representation of the tool and the patient with added guide imagery or a digital projection (eg. by a picoprojector) onto the patient's anatomy of the appropriate location of a resection. The indicator serves to provide an appropriate OTT CAS output to guide the surgeon to make the right resection based on real time information.

Novartis Patent

http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20140403ptan20140094506.php

http://www.google.com/patents/US20140094506

"By way of an example, an image intensifying device, such as those provided by Telesensory (http://www.telesensory.com), may be combined with a retinal scanning device (RSD) as developed by Microvision (http://www.microvision.com/milprod.html), to provide a head-worn apparatus capable of delivering a bright, intensified image directly to the retina of a patient with impaired vision (http://www.telesensory.com/home8.html). Briefly, a RSD projects images onto the retina such that an individual can view a large, full-motion image without the need for additional screens or monitors. Thus, by projecting an intensified image directly to the retina of an individual with impaired vision, it may be possible to improve vision in those considered to be blind."