In Angoulême, Cortex Productions, an animation studio specializing in the medical field, has teamed up with the start-up Kalank to launch an AR filter on Snapchat called Corona My Lungs . The latter explains contamination and the effects of the coronavirus on the respiratory system.
"Augmented reality and filters (...) have the advantage of breaking down the distance that can exist in a video or a film." Andreas Koch, co-founder of Cortex Productions
A video showing a lung sick with Covid-19 is telling but the viewer says to himself “ it’s a sick person, it’s not me.” Augmented reality, on the other hand, gives the illusion that what we see is really happening to us.
The use of this technology aims to inform before shocking: “Our long-term goal is to student data create a media that would be a kind of scientific information relay thanks to augmented reality,” adds Andreas Koch.
In France, the company Real Illusions – specializing in augmented reality communication tools – has also launched an application allowing users to observe the virus. Available on Android, iOS and Hololens (Microsoft's VR headset), this content uses information from the English-language site scientificanimations.com , a leading publication in the field of medical animations for the general public.
Source: Real illusions
During the pandemic, three UK hospitals used HoloLens 2 headsets to reduce doctors' exposure time to Covid-19 patients by 83% and reduce the demand for personal protective equipment , saving 700 protective items per week per department.