Pro Medicus serves up a vision of Apple's Vision Pro future
Apple's new "spatial computing" headset is likely to cost over $5000 when it eventually comes to Australia. New types of apps will be needed to make it worthwhile.
Since Apple launched its futuristic Vision Pro headset in the US on Friday, the memes have come in fast and hot. San Francisco and New York are seemingly agog at punters wearing their headsets on public transport, in cafes and even crossing the street.
Perhaps it won’t be too long before Vision Pro headsets are found in doctors surgeries, too. On Friday Visage Imaging, a US subsidiary of ASX-listed Pro Medicus, announced Visage Ease VP, an app specially designed for the Vision Pro.
Designed for radiologists and other healthcare professionals, it allows those clad with Apple’s new headset to inspect diagnostic images – X-Rays and the like – and render them as 3D models.
"We can reconstruct images from CT and MRI and make them into 3D bones, which is a significant aid to diagnosis," Pro Medicus cofounder Sam Hupert said to Capital Brief. "When you're looking at complex anatomy that's been altered by a disease process, we believe that will add an extra benefit for things like surgical planning, tumour oncology planning, those sorts of things."
