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MediView and GE Healthcare to Bring Augmented Reality Solutions to Medical Imaging for the Interventional Space

November 28, 2022

New collaboration seeks to advance precision care through intuitive visualization, remote collaboration and evidence-based insights. 

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Virtual Reality Bites: 6 Ways Industry Is Harnessing The Power Of VR And AR

August 15, 2019

The future’s made of virtual insanity, warned Jay Kay, the lead singer of Jamiroquai, in a 1996 megahit. The song “Virtual Insanity” imagined a bleak world where we’d all live underground in a simulacrum of reality afforded by “useless technology.” But there’s no sign of this subterranean dystopia in 2019: Humans are still an aboveground species, and virtual and augmented reality technology (VR and AR, respectively) is seriously funky.

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The Future of Work

Game On: Augmented Reality Is Helping Factory Workers Become More Productive

Tomas Kellner
April 19, 2018
Jimmie Beacham is no gamer, but that didn’t stop him from hanging an Xbox console from a ceiling at work. As chief engineer for advanced manufacturing at GE Healthcare, Beacham, 44, is in charge of a futuristic laboratory in Waukesha, Wisconsin, experimenting with new ways to make things. He and his team are using the Xbox and a connected Kinect motion tracker to bring augmented reality (AR) into the factory and help workers become more efficient.
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Change Of Heart: This Augmented Reality System Could Help Ultrasound Trainees Find Their Target

Kristin Kloberdanz
January 10, 2018
Human hearts, as most schoolchildren know, are located in the upper left side of the chest. But under the skin, things get murkier. In fact, medical workers occasionally confuse the heart with another organ when conducting an ultrasound scan, even when they are in the right location.
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4 Reasons People Aren’t Jumping On The Augmented Reality Bandwagon

Alexis Macklin Greenlight Insights
September 10, 2017
It’s already been a year since the wildly popular Pokemon Go launched, but have we seen any breakthroughs in the augmented reality (AR) market yet?  AR is in the same place as VR was in early 2015: many platform manufacturers, high prices and too little content and supportive software.  Now, anticipation over how the recently announced competing AR platforms means the mobile app landscape may develop actually slower than expected.
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Smart Specs: OK Glass, Fix This Jet Engine

Kristin Kloberdanz
July 19, 2017
Jet engine makers estimate they lose millions of dollars each year because nuts that seal fluid lines and hoses, called b-nuts, aren’t screwed on just right. If the b-nuts are deemed too loose or too tight during testing, the engine has to be fixed before it can power a plane with paying passengers.
Until recently, there were few good ways to tell if the nut had hit that sweet spot. Workers with torque wrenches had to rely on their skill and judgment to nail the delicate balance.
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The Future of Work

Looking Smart: Augmented Reality Is Seeing Real Results In Industry

Kristin Kloberdanz
May 25, 2017

Google Glass may have stumbled in the consumer market, but smart glasses have found new life in industry. Workers assembling wind turbines at a GE Renewable Energy factory in Pensacola, Florida, for example, wear smart glasses powered by Upskill, a GE Ventures-backed company that produces enterprise software for wearables.

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The Future of Work

Leaner Than Lean: How Digitalization Transforms Manufacturing

Randy Stearns
May 12, 2017
If you want to see the future of manufacturing, follow the Tama River about 45 kilometers upstream from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport to the GE Healthcare facility in Hino, Japan. Inside this outwardly conventional, low-rise suburban business complex is emerging the blueprint for the future of manufacturing, tweak by painstaking tweak.
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The Future of Work

GE Healthcare's 3D Printing Incubator Is Liberating Engineers (And Much More)

Tomas Kellner
May 10, 2017
Hailing from the Outer Banks, a long, sandy necklace of islands hanging from North Carolina’s Atlantic coast, Jimmie Beacham knows something about witnessing history. When his grandfather, John, was a small boy, he watched one of the Wright brothers’ first attempts at flight in nearby Kitty Hawk, a feat that ultimately ended up changing how we live. Now Beacham himself is in the vanguard of a revolution, one that is changing how we design and make things. It’s called additive manufacturing, which includes technologies like 3D printing.
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Move Over Pokémon, GE Is Testing Augmented Reality Helmets In Qatar’s Giant Sandbox

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 03, 2016
What makes Pokémon Go so addictive? Blame it on augmented reality (AR), which populates what looks like the real world with Pokémon creatures. Now that technology is being used for a much bigger play in a world beyond gaming. GE, for example, is using it to keep oil and gas flowing.
Imagine it is a hot day in the north of Qatar. A field engineer just arrived to carry out routine maintenance at one of the world’s largest LNG plants located there. She’s wearing a snazzy blue helmet that—besides keeping her safe on-site — is her link to the outside world.
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