Doctors do what it takes to save the lives of their patients -- even if it means drilling holes into their skulls and sticking giant needles into their brains.
Luckily for those of us with heads, surgeons and engineers at Duke are working to make emergency neurosurgical procedures like this a whole lot safer, with the help the HoloLens, a new pair of augmented reality (AR) goggles from Microsoft.
The HoloLens adds to, or “augments,” our existing reality by projecting virtual, 3D images onto real-world objects. The effect is just like spotting one of those colorful, virtual monsters from Pokemon Go -- except instead of seeing the virtual images in the screen of your phone, you see them through the lenses of the goggles.