How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Can Revolutionize Science
By Martijn Roelandse, Kristen Wallerius on October 30, 2018
The ideas of AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality) are familiar to almost everyone by now; most people probably think of them in the context of immersive video games. But AR/VR also holds enormous potential for science. There are programs that run on VR headsets that provide a testing ground for surgeons in training, AR microscopes that can detect cancerous cells in real time, and an “AR sandbox†that allows users to create 3-D topographical models to learn about watersheds, levees, earth contours, etc.
At Springer Nature (the parent company of Scientific American), we are looking to our own scientific data and imagining where all that information can take us when given a new life inside AR/VR applications. To that end, we will be hosting our first-ever mixed-reality Hackathon, November 7–9 in San Francisco, hosted at the Microsoft Reactor
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