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GigXR announces availability of Insight Series 3D anatomy education in partnership with ANIMA RES

GigXR, Inc., a global provider of holographic healthcare training, has today announced the availability of the Insight Series by ANIMA RES to provide hyper-realistic 3D anatomy learning for medical schools, nursing schools, healthcare providers and government and defense agencies worldwide.

The Insight Series by ANIMA RES features accurately structured 3D models of the lung (Insight Lung), heart (Insight Heart) and kidney (Insight Kidney) to enable learners to see the impacts of conditions and diseases on the affected organs. Delivered on the Gig Immersive Learning Platform – GigXR’s centralized hub for institution-wide immersive learning across all levels, programs and departments – the applications provide institutions and instructors globally with holographic anatomy content that is true-to-life, resource-effective and scalable, according to the company.

With the Insight Series by ANIMA RES now integrated with the Gig Immersive Learning Platform, instructors and learners can access the applications using mixed reality headsets or any Android or iOS mobile phone or tablet, enabling them to display 3D models of the heart, lung or kidney to accurately observe how each organ might be affected by various modes of disease.

Insight Heart shows movements of a healthy heart or the stages, consequences and treatment of common heart problems, including myocardial infarction (heart attack), atrial fibrillation and arterial hypertension. This is especially important as heart attacks are frequently misdiagnosed and all of these conditions need to be identified as early as possible.
Insight Lung provides an in-depth look at asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and their effect on lungs when compared to the organ in healthy condition, helping learners understand the pathology behind each condition and evaluation of proper treatment options.
Insight Kidney creates a macroscopic to microscopic visualization of healthy kidneys or those affected by common and rare diseases such as CKD, aHUS, IgAN and C3G, giving learners a detailed look at structural and functional changes caused by each pathology.

“Showing learners accurate 3D organ function and disease progression removes the friction between students mastering anatomy and applying their learnings to a real-life patient,” said Pablo Olmos, CEO at ANIMA RES. “Partnering with GigXR gives us the springboard to expand our geographic reach to match GigXR’s global footprint and get our market-leading content into the hands of educators and learners worldwide. Together, we aim to give learners the best tools for success throughout training and clinical practice.”

We spoke with GigXR’s CEO, Jared Mermey, who showed us a mixed reality demo of the ANIMA RES Insight Heart experience running on a Microsoft HoloLens 2 device. ANIMA RES are of course known for their extremely high quality 3D medical animations, and shown on the GigXR platform, it was clear to see the value that this integration will bring to those learning at medical institutions. It seems that mixed reality as a tool for learning has now transitioned from being a ‘nice-to-have’ for medical educational institutions, to a ‘need-to-have,’ particularly for generations of students who have been raised on interactive digital content and knowledge.

Each 3D organ model serves as a complementary 3D learning layer for instructors to bring multiple holographic training applications together, including those already delivered by the Gig Immersive Learning Platform. Additional applications from GigXR include HoloScenarios, HoloHuman and HoloPatient, which were created in partnership with medical education experts at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation, Northwest Permanente P.C., University of Michigan and 3D4Medical by Elsevier. The company’s HoloScenarios platform was also recently featured as one of Time Magazine’s ‘Best Inventions of 2022.’

GigXR announces availability of Insight Series 3D anatomy education in partnership with ANIMA RES

November 16, 2022 2022, 3D Assets & Modeling, AR/VR Experience, Collaborations & Partnerships, Education & Training, Healthcare, Mixed Reality News, News, Platform, Product Updates, Software

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November 16, 2022 – GigXR, Inc., a global provider of holographic healthcare training, has today announced the availability of the Insight Series by ANIMA RES to provide hyper-realistic 3D anatomy learning for medical schools, nursing schools, healthcare providers and government and defense agencies worldwide.

Insight Heart shows movements of a healthy heart or the stages, consequences and treatment of common heart problems, including myocardial infarction (heart attack), atrial fibrillation and arterial hypertension. This is especially important as heart attacks are frequently misdiagnosed and all of these conditions need to be identified as early as possible.
Insight Lung provides an in-depth look at asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and their effect on lungs when compared to the organ in healthy condition, helping learners understand the pathology behind each condition and evaluation of proper treatment options.
Insight Kidney creates a macroscopic to microscopic visualization of healthy kidneys or those affected by common and rare diseases such as CKD, aHUS, IgAN and C3G, giving learners a detailed look at structural and functional changes caused by each pathology.

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“The debut of the Insight Series with ANIMA RES reinforces our ability to collaborate with leading mixed reality partners while also providing healthcare institutions the content and tools to scale high-quality immersive learning across their curriculum,” said Mermey. “The Gig Immersive Learning Platform makes integrating multiple immersive applications that span different health topics easy to do such that an instructor can seamlessly use multiple apps even during a single lesson.”

The Gig Immersive Learning Platform enables healthcare institutions to scale their use of immersive learning by allowing them to curate a custom catalog of mixed reality applications that maps to their teaching and training curricula. All applications on the platform, including the Insight Series by ANIMA RES, share a series of features including:

Centralized management from one dashboard;
Single sign-on with the same credentials;
Easy access of content via scanning QR codes;
Distributed learning amongst remote participants;
Holograms and animations shared in real-time;
Creation and scheduling immersive learning sessions.

The Insight Series by ANIMA RES, delivered by the Gig Immersive Learning Platform, is available for licensing starting today. To learn more about GigXR and its mixed reality medical training solutions, please visit the company’s website.

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https://www.auganix.org/gigxr-announces-availability-of-insight-series-3d-anatomy-education-in-partnership-with-anima-res/

Image / video credit: GigXR / ANIMA RES / Vimeo / YouTube

23. November 2022 0 comment

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Anatomage VR brings interactive anatomy learning to the metaverse

Anatomage Inc., a provider of medical imaging technology, has recently announced the release of Anatomage VR – a virtual reality (VR) application that gives users the opportunity to explore Anatomage’s real human bodies in the metaverse.

Since the company’s inception in 2004, Anatomage has offered detailed, accurate and interactive human anatomy tools with its Anatomage Table platform. Anatomage has now successfully incorporated that same flagship technology into Anatomage VR, which grants students the power to explore realistic human anatomy through a virtual reality headset. The platform also pairs with Anatomage Table, but can otherwise be purchased and used as a standalone product in the classroom.

Designed to accompany accredited high school anatomy and life science programs, Anatomage VR, enables students to:

Interact with Anatomage Table’s digital bodies, including highly detailed male and female human cadavers;
Visualize more than 2,500 anatomical structures in each digital body;
Play 71 animated anatomy shows to inspect anatomy regions in 3D;
Access, customize, and incorporate 536 presets into curriculum-focused anatomy lessons;
Simulate flythroughs to travel through 10 regions of a human body endoscopically;
Increase student engagement with quizzing models;
Analyze real-life pathology cases with 300 real-patient CT & MRI scans.

“As the world continues to embrace new virtual reality experiences, we are excited to bring Anatomage’s world-class anatomy content to the metaverse. With Anatomage VR, students can engage with anatomy learning in a never before seen way through the cutting-edge world of VR. We are so proud that our educational content is being used to teach the next generation of medical and healthcare professionals,” said Jack Choi, CEO of Anatomage.

For more information on Anatomage and its virtual reality solutions for exploring human anatomy, please visit the company’s website.

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https://www.auganix.org/anatomage-vr-brings-interactive-anatomy-learning-to-the-metaverse/

Image / video credit: Anatomage / YouTube

10. Oktober 2022 0 comment

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GigXR and Elsevier unveil expanded remote features for their HoloHuman 3D immersive anatomy app

GigXR, a provider of extended reality (XR) solutions for instructor-led teaching and training, and Elsevier, a global educational publisher and provider of the 3D4Medical human anatomy platform, have today announced expanded immersive learning capabilities for HoloHuman, a mixed reality (MR) anatomy application that empowers instructors in providing students with holographic learning environments.

Purpose-built to simplify complex models through 3D visualization, HoloHuman helps to drive a deeper understanding of human anatomy in order to enhance clinical preparedness for real-life diagnostic, research and hospital scenarios, according to GigXR. Using mixed reality, which blends physical and digital elements, students are able to explore and interact in a more immersive sensory experience in their own environments and from their mobile devices.

The expanded capabilities announced today include:

Improved holographic interaction with the simulated human body enables HoloHuman to deliver anatomy curricula with immersive realism including:

Views by regions of the human body (such as thorax), 11 different systems such as the respiratory or cardiovascular system, and over 4,500 named and described structures.
Views of multiple anatomical systems at the same time, with the capability of simultaneously overlaying any combination of them.
Access to detailed information about each human component within the holographic view.

Benefits for both instructors and students to encourage tailored lessons and collaborative learning including:

Instructors are able to customize how they want models to appear, then save them as a ‘Stage’ which can be opened during a class.
Instructors can also customize the text displayed next to models as labels and save them within configured Stages as well.
HoloHuman now supports both in-class and remote participation at the same time using a Microsoft HoloLens headsets and mobile devices (Android and iOS) all accessing the same views within a shared session.
All participants both local and remote can communicate through the application during an active HoloHuman session with VoIP capabilities.
Streamlined QR code login through system account via web browser or app on mobile device, including ability to directly access previously saved session content.

Cost-effective and fully scalable immersive solution including:

Remote capabilities and support for mobile devices, enabling HoloHuman to accommodate larger classes without deterring instructional effectiveness.
Cost efficiencies when compared to more expensive physical models that wear out quickly or the use of human cadavers which are getting harder to acquire, expensive to maintain, and can only be used once.
Endlessly customizable to meet specific instructional needs and incorporate new capabilities over time, something that physical models and cadavers don’t offer.

“Having built the most comprehensive software platform for rendering 3D anatomical models, we see the real value in having a mixed reality immersive learning platform because it allows instructors to share an entire structured anatomy curriculum and make concepts visual,” said Niall Johnston, VP Sales at 3D4Medical from Elsevier and GigXR partner. “This addresses the challenge that students traditionally have experienced learning in 2D while interacting in a 3D world. Mixed reality learning prepares them so much better for hands-on application of knowledge and techniques. That’s an incredibly important outcome and one of the many reasons why we’re thrilled to partner with GigXR in bringing human anatomy models to life.”

Commenting on how HoloHuman helps to transform teaching methods for institutions and individual instructors, David King Lassman, CEO at GigXR, said: “Students can now interact in real-time with a rich, multi-dimensional mixed-reality model of the human body, enabling them to visualize and explore anatomical structures and systems like never before. We’ve created with Elsevier an entirely immersive experience to train students and professionals in a way that actually looks and feels real. It’s an incredible achievement with tremendous value and potential for institutions globally.”

Finally, Greg Sullivan, Director of Mixed Reality at Microsoft, noted: “Human anatomy is so incredibly complex, but HoloHuman and the Microsoft Hololens working in tandem create a virtualized and immersive experience that is superior to working with static physical models, because of the additional contextual information provided and the ability that students have to collaborate in the same space.”

HoloHuman is available today for academic institutions to implement globally. For more information on GigXR and its HoloHuman solution, click here.

Quelle:

https://www.auganix.org/gigxr-and-elsevier-unveil-expanded-remote-features-for-their-holohuman-3d-immersive-anatomy-app/

Image / video credit: GigXR / Vimeo

8. Oktober 2021 0 comment

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Augmented Anatomy App hilft beim Lernen

Die Firma Erler-Zimmer ist ein inhabergeführtes Familienunternehmen, das sich bereits in der vierten Generation mit der Herstellung von erstklassigen medizinischen Ausbildungsmitteln befasst. So kann man unter anderem anatomische Modell von praktisch jedem Körperteil bei der deutschen Unternehmung kaufen. Neu gibt es eine Augmented Reality (AR) App die mehr über die 3D-Modelle erfahren lässt.

Die Produkte können so in der Augmented Anatomy App in einer neuen Dimension erlebt werden. Medizinische Begriffe, die man vorher mühsam in einer physischen sogenannten Nomenklatur suchen musste, können nun direkt am Modell über AR abgelesen und weitere Informationen über Wikipedia abgerufen werden. Die kostenfreie App ist auch für Modelle verfügbar, welche bereits in der Vergangenheit gekauft wurden.

Sicherlich nicht die bahnbrechenste, neuste Erfindung, aber solche Fälle zeigen wieder einmal, wo AR einen hohen Zusatznutzen generieren kann. So macht Anatomy lernen bestimmt mehr Spass und die Lernzeffizienz wird erhöht. Das zeigen auch die Rezensionen im App Store und Google Play. Und natürlich kann eine solche Anwendung auch sehr hilfreich fürs Verständnis der Patienten sein.

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18. Juni 2021 0 comment

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Learn To Dissect A Dog With EasyAnatomy AR App

Spatial business intelligence and 3D data visualization company, LlamaZOO Interactive Inc., has recently announced the launch of EasyAnatomy 2020, the company’s augmented reality (AR) anatomy app. EasyAnatomy features a medically accurate 3D canine model that students, professors, and professionals can use for learning or reference on smartphones, tablets, and portable and desktop computers.

EasyAnatomy allows students to study, dissect and learn through virtual canine anatomy in AR from the comfort of their own homes using a smartphone or tablet device, making it a useful tool throughout COVID-19’s “new normal”, according to LlamaZOO. Even with access to classes and dissection labs being limited, veterinary students can still get hands-on experience with canine dissection.

The EasyAnatomy content has been created in collaboration with educational institutions and anatomy and veterinary professors, and is based on CT & MRI medical imaging. As a result, professors will be able to support lecture and virtual lab classes. LlamaZOO stated that an updated interface will make it more intuitive to rotate, zoom, explore, and virtually dissect the complete and complex canine anatomy layer by layer, allowing students to learn through clear labels and clinically focused notes.

Students will also be able to take interactive quizzes thanks to the company’s AI algorithm-based adaptive quizzing system, which features over 700 professionally written questions. “EasyAnatomy is a way to learn and view anatomy that simply isn’t possible anywhere else”, said Dr. Rachel Norris, Head of Animal and Veterinary Bioscience at the University of Adelaide.

According to LlamaZOO, users of EasyAnatomy 2020 can expect the following features:

– Improved performance and content;

– A modern update to the User Interface making it more intuitive and easy to us;

– Simplified account creation, and reduced subscription costs, making anatomy education more accessible;

– Hundreds of various fixes, bugs squashed, and improvements.

LlamaZOO CEO and President, Charles Lavigne, commented: “We’re always innovating in 3D technology, but with EasyAnatomy we’re also innovating in education. We’re really providing new ways to learn. EasyAnatomy 2020 makes anatomy easier to explore and understand, and in turn makes tomorrow’s vets more knowledgeable and able to save the lives of more of our furry friends and companions”.

EasyAnatomy is available for download now from the Apple App Store, and the Microsoft Store. For more information, see the EasyAnatomy website.

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https://www.vrroom.buzz/vr-news/trends/learn-dissect-dog-easyanatomy-ar-app

18. November 2020 0 comment

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How Augmented Reality Is Used in Teaching Anatomy

Augmented reality offers unique learning experiences, enabling medical students to explore and better understand the human body.

In recent years, we have been seeing growing interest in the applications of augmented reality beyond the world of gaming. There is, for instance, increasingly prominent utilization of AR in education.

AR’s immersive nature offers limitless opportunities to spice up boring classroom lectures—and of course, enhance learning. Hence, it’s no surprise that educators from all levels of education are experimenting with it.

That includes medical school.

Following the decline of cadaver-based teaching, educators have been seeking new ways to teach anatomy effectively. AR has proven to be useful in this field. Various institutions have been experimenting with immersive technologies. They’ve been implementing such technologies as part of multimodal, multimedia approaches to anatomy teaching.

Here, we will explore the use of AR in anatomy teaching.

Augmented Reality Applications in Anatomy Teaching

Complete Anatomy is arguably one of the most powerful AR apps in anatomy education. It delivers virtual models of the human body based on classic textbooks and anatomical papers. The creators, 3D4Medical, use the best resources possible to ensure accuracy.

Students can explore the body down to the cellular level. You can discover all the different types of cells and the roles they carry out that are essential to everyday living. Furthermore, you can select specific organs and see them at work. For example, you can view the heart in action. You will see how blood circulates with the real-time beating of the heart.

Perhaps the best part is that it offers 200+ hours of expert-led lectures. After in-depth lessons, you can test your knowledge by taking quizzes.

Another app that simulates cadaveric dissection is Human Anatomy Atlas. Visible Body created the app to provide students an alternative for cadaver-based learning. With an Android or iOS phone, anyone can access it.

The Human Anatomy Atlas AR app — *Human Anatomy Atlas AR app*

Students can turn any room into a lab. You can, for instance, explore different body systems and dissect virtual cadavers. Using the app, you can learn the various functions of organs. Moreover, you can dissect the organs of your choice—brain, heart, and eyes, to name a few.

Takeaway

As universities all over the world suspend classroom lessons due to the COVID-19 pandemic, AR has never been more important to education. It enables students to receive the same quality of lessons they would receive in a lab. Moreover, you can access much-needed resources anytime and anywhere.

Since augmented reality doesn’t necessarily require expensive headsets like virtual reality, you can use its applications without breaking the bank.

AR is slowly taking over the field of medicine. Whether it’s in the operating room or the classroom, immersive technology is empowering medical professionals. It is expanding their knowledge and providing them with opportunities to practice. Using AR, doctors can delve into health issues and cases that they will be treating one day.

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How Augmented Reality Is Used in Teaching Anatomy

25. Juni 2020 0 comment

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In Australia, University Students Using Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality to Learn Anatomy

Could virtual reality and augmented reality replace textbooks in the classrooms of the future? One Australian university is already ahead of the curve.

La Trobe University in Australia is now deploying virtual reality and augmented reality in helping students learn about human anatomy. The pilot program offers a 12-week AR-powered learning program.

This is the latest sign that XR technologies are creeping into the learning environment in a very practical sense. The pilot program of the technology is meant to help students boost their spatial awareness, explorative learning and accessibility.

The augmented reality application offers students a 24-hour access to three-dimensional anatomy images via their phones, iPad or computers. On campus, virtual reality headsets will be used to offer students access to virtual reality technology.

Augmented reality technology enables students to not only visualize but also manipulate the anatomical structures and therefore develop a deeper understanding of the human anatomy. Students can even superimpose anatomical structures over their peers who can subsequently perform movements with the app to better understand concepts such as muscle function. The augmented reality anatomical technology can come in handy in teamwork as well as in self-directed learning.

There is also the monetary incentive for using AR in learning. The use of the augmented reality technology will cost students AUD $10 which is roughly equivalent to USD $6.74 per student for the license. It is much cheaper than Australian textbooks on anatomy that cost more than AUD $100.

It is a 12-week program where students will use their devices to examine the human body both digitally and interactively. Augmented reality is also more portable and flexible than textbooks.

The technology will help improve access to learning. Students will be able to study very high-quality 3D images with clinical cases, text and quizzes not only in the classroom but also on public transport and at home.

In the pilot phase of the implementation of the technology, immersive learning will be available for all anatomy courses. The initial feedback from the deployment of the technology has been positive with the students in the pilot phase of the XR learning program reporting improved grades.

Technology is rapidly transforming the educational sector with tablets and computers now a ubiquitous feature in both classrooms and libraries. The last few years has also seen the rise in the development of digital-based learning platform such as the massive open online courses (MOOCS).

Some of the providers such as edX now provide free online courses from renowned institutions like Columbia University. The edX platform already provides more than 2,400 courses to thousands of users from around the world.

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In Australia, University Students Using Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality to Learn Anatomy

18. Oktober 2019 0 comment