Healthcare - Archives | Digital Bodies

St. Jude’s Moving VR Memorials for Child Cancer Patients

December 4, 2019 by Emory Craig

St. Jude's VR memorials for child cancer patients

Few health organizations are as remarkable as the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, so it’s no surprise to see their VR memorials for child cancer patients. In the past 50 years, they’ve helped improve the childhood …

An AR Activity Book for Hospitalized Children

February 26, 2019February 26, 2019 by Emory Craig

AR Activity Book at OSF Healthcare Children’s Hospital of Illinois.

Jump Simulation is distributing a wonderful AR activity book to children at OSF HealthCare Children’s Hospital of Illinois. The 22-page, 3-D interactive coloring-activity book focuses on anatomy and relies on an AR app on a Smartphone. …

Innovative Medical VR Projects are Transforming Pediatric Care

December 28, 2019January 25, 2019 by Emory Craig

We see a lot of amazing virtual reality projects these days, but medical VR stands out for its immediate impact. You might even see medical simulations as the “low-hanging” fruit of VR adoption. They’re often expensive …

Honda’s Beautiful AR Holiday Card Brings Smiles to Hospitalized Children

November 12, 2019December 24, 2017 by Emory Craig

Honda is taking the lead this season with a beautiful AR holiday card for children at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC). The AR card transforms a room into a magical winter wonderland and brings …

VR in medicine – taking a journey inside your own body

January 23, 2019December 20, 2017 by Emory Craig

There have already been major projects in using VR in medicine – from education and patient care to break-through developments in Exposure Therapy and surgery. At the University of New South Wales, researchers have taken immersive …

Media and Events

Emory Craig spoke at the XR in Education Summit at Yale University on "The Future of XR."

Maya Georgieva was on a panel at the Saleforce conference, "The Evolution and Power of Disruptive Technologies" in San Francisco.

We'll be at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Chicago with a Preconference workshop and other sessions the week of October 14th.

We'll be at the OC6 conference and reporting on the latest news from Oculus in San Jose on Sept. 25th and 26th.

We're on an XR and Learning panel at the The Chronicle of Higher Education and HP Leadership Summit, September 17, 2019, at The City University of New York (CUNY) The Graduate School.

We're at several conferences this summer, including AWE, SIGGRAPH 2019, and Singularity University's Global Summit.

We're delighted to be joining faculty in the College of Nursing at Sacred Heart University for a full day Professional Development Workshop, "Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications in Nursing Education." June 2019.

Ready for a discussion on "Ethics and Digital Fluency in VR and Immersive Learning Environments"? Join us at the NYS-CIO Conference in June 2019.

We are speaking at the United Nations Learning Forum on "Immersive Learning and The Future of Work," June 2019.

Emory Craig will be speaking at the AI Everything Summit in Dubai, "Who Can You Trust? Welcome to the Future of AI-driven Avatars in XR." May 1, 2019.

Join us on the Future Trends Forum with Bryan Alexander at 2:00pm (EST) on Feb. 28th for an interactive discussion and update on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Education.

We're at the EDUCAUSE-ELI Annual Meeting in Anaheim to do a 360 Video workshop, a Discussion on VR and Empathy, and the release of the Horizon Report

Emory Craig and Jesse Damiani discuss the future of VR, AR, and XR on the AV Life Podcast.

Emory Craig is speaking at the AIM North conference on VR and AI as Catalysts for Innovation in Learning, Nov. 7th

Emory Craig is speaking at the OECD Workshop on DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY FOR SCIENCE AND INNOVATION at OsloMet University in Norway, Nov. 5-6th

We're at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Denver to do a Preconference workshop on 360° Video and other sessions on VR during the week of Oct. 29th.

Maya Georgieva did an Ignite talk on Storytelling at the Connected Learning Summit at the MIT Media Lab on August 1.