Rachel Klemovitch, Assistant Editor03.07.24
Siemens Healthineers launched an app for the Apple Vision Pro, the company’s first spatial computer, that enables surgeons, medical students, and patients to view interactive holograms of the human body. The holograms are created through medical scans and the renderings could assist in surgical planning, helping patients understand procedures, and be used in medical education.
“Cinematic Reality gives people the opportunity to immerse themselves in a world of photorealistic renderings of the human anatomy. Apple Vision Pro perfectly presents that three-dimensional experience, combined with great flexibility and standalone use. We see great potential for the technology for clinical as well as educational purposes,” Christian Zapf, head of Digital and Automation at Siemens Healthineers told the press.
Apple Vision Pro and the Cinematic Reality app allow users to zoom in on details of clinical images and navigate around renderings. The app uses the power of Apple Silicone and Metal as a strong foundation for future development.
Cinematic Reality provides a more realistic way to visualize body parts and organs so that professionals can better explain clinical cases to patients, discuss clinical questions around referrals, or educate medical students.
In the future, the app can help non-radiologists and patients understand scans and conditions, assist surgeons with pre-operative planning, and facilitate interdisciplinary communication between specialists in different fields.
“We have further optimized our existing algorithm of Cinematic Reality to allow computationally intense methods to run on Apple Vision Pro’s M2 processor”, said Sebastian Krueger, lead developer of the Cinematic Reality app at Siemens Healthineers. “The rendering technique is used to simulate the way light interacts with objects in a virtual environment, producing highly realistic lighting and reflections in the resulting images.”
The Cinematic Reality app is available in the Apple App Store, and visitors of the HIMSS trade show in Orlando, FL can experience the app in person at Siemens Healthineers booth #2540, hall B from March 12 to 14.
“Cinematic Reality gives people the opportunity to immerse themselves in a world of photorealistic renderings of the human anatomy. Apple Vision Pro perfectly presents that three-dimensional experience, combined with great flexibility and standalone use. We see great potential for the technology for clinical as well as educational purposes,” Christian Zapf, head of Digital and Automation at Siemens Healthineers told the press.
Apple Vision Pro and the Cinematic Reality app allow users to zoom in on details of clinical images and navigate around renderings. The app uses the power of Apple Silicone and Metal as a strong foundation for future development.
Cinematic Reality provides a more realistic way to visualize body parts and organs so that professionals can better explain clinical cases to patients, discuss clinical questions around referrals, or educate medical students.
In the future, the app can help non-radiologists and patients understand scans and conditions, assist surgeons with pre-operative planning, and facilitate interdisciplinary communication between specialists in different fields.
“We have further optimized our existing algorithm of Cinematic Reality to allow computationally intense methods to run on Apple Vision Pro’s M2 processor”, said Sebastian Krueger, lead developer of the Cinematic Reality app at Siemens Healthineers. “The rendering technique is used to simulate the way light interacts with objects in a virtual environment, producing highly realistic lighting and reflections in the resulting images.”
The Cinematic Reality app is available in the Apple App Store, and visitors of the HIMSS trade show in Orlando, FL can experience the app in person at Siemens Healthineers booth #2540, hall B from March 12 to 14.