Mako Surgical co-founder Rony Abovitz has raised $1.4 billion for his newest venture, Magic Leap, a company focused on developing novel augmented reality that could find its way to the operating room.
The company’s technology, which has been kept hush-hush since it began development in 2011, is designed to project images onto the users retina to create “mixed reality” objects in the environment without the use of external screens or devices.
While the company is currently focused on producing entertainment, which is expected to lead the pack for the novel, possibly disruptive technology, Magic Leap feels its biggest impact in future business applications, according to a Forbes report.
Virtual Reality surgical systems and devices are becoming more common, allowing operating physicians a chance to virtually walk through bodies, plan surgeries and examine MRI, CAT and other images in 3 dimensions.
Magic Leap could offer something different for users in the medical field – an always-present screen that would be able to relay information to surgeons, physicians, even pharmacists that could augment and improve their jobs
Magic Leap isn’t the only company working on augmented reality – Microsoft plans to release the HoloLens, a device designed to create similar augmented reality graphics, some time in 2017.
The company said it expects to release in the next 18 months, according to a report from Forbes, though it could be some time before the technology makes its way into healthcare.
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