Augmented Reality Allows Specialists to Provide Care in Remote Locations
The creators of the AR describe it as “telementoring,” rather than telemedicine, since the remote mentor physician will be working with and through the help of an on-site mentee. The mentee dons an AR headset, which gives the off-site mentor a first-person view of the patient and of the mentee’s actions. Meanwhile, a drone can be deployed to provide the mentor with a bird’s eye view of the scene.
...the mentor physician can draw arrows or surgical instructions over the mentee’s field of vision. The headset also has a stabilizer feature, eliminating video instability caused by rapid movement by the mentee.
The system was built to rely on various strengths of internet access, using the WebRTC protocol, which Muñoz said is similar to the framework used by Skype.
“This allows us to have communication of video and audio over the network that handles unstable bandwidth,” he said. “Our communication has proved efficient when communicating over regular Wi-Fi and also over LTE cellular connection.”
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