University Wants to Bring Holograms to Med. School

By 2019, if the evaluations underway now at Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) Medical School continue to confirm their effectiveness as teaching tools, medical students will learn anatomy, pharmacology, surgery and other medical classes using virtual reality holograms that would make teenaged gamers jealous.

Actually, the creators of Microsoft’s HoloLens prefer to call it “mixed reality,” because users experience both people and things within the classroom, as well as the holographic images. It offers the user the chance to interact with the holograms. CWRU Medical School Dean Dr. Pamela Davis called it “arguably the most exciting technology in medical education on the horizon today.”