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Virtual Reality Master File. Richard M. Satava, MD FACS Professor of Surgery University of Washington School of Medicine and Program Manager, Advanced Biomedical Technologies Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Special Assistant, Advance Medical Technologies
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Virtual Reality Master File Richard M. Satava, MD FACS Professor of Surgery University of Washington School of Medicine and Program Manager, Advanced Biomedical Technologies Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Special Assistant, Advance Medical Technologies US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Please give credit to the researchers listed on the slides
CLASSIFIED Air Force 1 - refit Unofficial Administration request
“The Future is here … . . . it’s the Information Age” Current Visions
If Telemedicine were … Ubiquitous In every home, school, workplace desktop, mall, airport, etc Free Ultra-bandwidth, continuous access, at no cost, etc … then what is the next step?
“The Future is not what it used to be” ….Yogi Berra Disruptive Visions
Holomer Total body-scan for total diagnosis From visible human to virtual human Satava March, 2002
Virtual Soldier Scan • What if we could . . . • Predict the performance of each soldier under • a thousand different scenarios/stresses • Instantly and automatically accurately diagnose • every internal combat injury • Determine the potential of hundreds of • equipment, drug, training, etc. enhancements • Estimate the effects of wounding of every • type of weapon under every situation • Perform clinical trials for a vaccine on a • million soldiers over 20 years time – in one week • …. just for starters
Figure 4 Scott Fisher wearing one of the first head mounted displays at the NASA Ames Research Center virtual reality laboratory – ca 1985. (Courtesy of Dr. Scott Fisher, PhD, Telepresence Research, Inc., Palo Alto, CA)
Information Age Technologies • Digital imaging (CT, MRI, ultrasound, etc) • Remote and biologic sensors • Networking • Robotics • Micro-machines / micro-robots • Human interface technology • Virtual reality • Supercomputing • Artificial intelligence
Haptics Full System ENT Sinusoscopy SimulatorLockheed Martin 1999
Virtual Emergency Room Courtesy Suzanne Weghorst, HIT Lab, Univ Washington. 1994
The Challenge To understand the fundamental change the Information Age is bringing to Healthcare SATAVA 7 July, 1999 DARPA
The point at which human, machine and information interact The Digital Interface
Color Virtual Retinal Display Courtesy Tom Furness, HIT Lab, Seattle WA
VRD as a personal eyewear display Courtesy Tom Furness, HIT Lab, Seattle WA
VisionStation Courtesy Elumens, Inc