OMERACT 2020: A virtual (R)evolution

A Smart Green Third Industrial Revolution 2015 - 2020

The EU economy is slowing, productivity is waning, and unemployment remains stubbornly high. The question being raised with increasing urgency is how to rekindle “The European Dream.” The EU owes its success to a forward thinking series of economic and social visions that have motivated member states and the citizenry to continue on a common journey: the Maastricht Treaty, creating a political ...

Virtual and Augmented Reality 2020

ith roots going back to Ivan Suther-land's research in the 1960s, virtual reality (VR) reached a plateau in the early 1990s when the promise was demonstrable in universities and research laboratories. Although we all knew we had a long way to go, hype overtook the field, leading to impossible expectations. Fortunately, a few years later the Internet became the latest hot topic, leaving VR resea...

Virtual reality bronchoscopy simulation: a revolution in procedural training.

BACKGROUND In the airline industry, training is costly and operator error must be avoided. Therefore, virtual reality (VR) is routinely used to learn manual and technical skills through simulation before pilots assume flight responsibilities. In the field of medicine, manual and technical skills must also be acquired to competently perform invasive procedures such as flexible fiberoptic broncho...

From GPS and Virtual Globes to Spatial Computing – 2020

Thanks to today’s relatively high-speed wireless data networks, and location/orientation-aware mobile phones, we are tantalizingly close to realizing a common dream of Augmented Reality (AR) everywhere. But even with appropriate content and concepts of operation, things are not quite right: icons and annotations are misregistered and/or jiggle around. We can get the data to the phone (the last ...

The Virtual Reality Revolution: The Vision and the Reality