When a radiologist asked us earlier this week, “Will there ever be a day when we use Rad AI Reporting with Apple Vision Pro?” John Paulett looked at me and said “Josh, hold my coffee.” Later that day, he sent this video. Welcome to AR: Augmented Radiology.

@johnpaulett This is a neat technology demo but this general idea of AR workspaces to replace physical workstations needs a lot of work in terms of screen placement and manipulation, active display swapping, etc before even the simple ergonomics of doing this for a shift are feasible

@johnpaulett I can't help but consider this gimmicky at this point.

@johnpaulett There you have it folks

@johnpaulett Is the contrast really good enough?

@johnpaulett While I love the workspace infrastructure benefits of not needing fixed workstations within the confines of a reading room, I hope this isn’t meant to suggest that radiologists working while on vacation at a scenic locale might be the goal.

@johnpaulett This would be wonderful for showing patients their scans. Do any companies have an interest in doing that?

@johnpaulett Thought about this a few days ago. Is screen resolution/contrast/etc within spec for radiographs? A lot of work from home telerads prob not using dedicated radiology monitors anyway so maybe a wash

@johnpaulett We still need some color to our rad images🫡

@johnpaulett How about a VR system that actually works well?