Augmented Reality: Extending Real-Time Information During Surgery

While this column has covered many areas of artificial intelligence (AI), there hasn't been much described about augmented reality (AR). This is a technology made famous and then forgotten by many via the overblown hype of Google glasses earlier this decade. The concept was that general use AR was just around the corner. What has slowly happened is that AR providers have focused more on narrow applications in the same way as early intelligence systems focused on specific domains rather than genera intelligence. As with other aspects of AI, including vision and robotics, one of the areas of AR focus is medicine.