{"id":196303,"date":"2024-09-17T13:28:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T18:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/dr-hologram-will-see-you-now-virtual-specialists-visit-cancer-patients"},"modified":"2024-09-17T13:28:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T18:28:32","slug":"dr-hologram-will-see-you-now-virtual-specialists-visit-cancer-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/dr-hologram-will-see-you-now-virtual-specialists-visit-cancer-patients","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Hologram will see you now: Virtual specialists visit cancer patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/taFlYAeQvD0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Back in August 2021, LA-based <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/around-the-home\/portl-m-home-hologram\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Portl<\/a> launched a 7-ft-tall hologram projection box for life-like remote communications. Now renamed Proto, the company has revealed that its Epic technology is allowing cancer patients to consult life-size virtual specialists.<\/p>\n<p>Proto was founded in 2018 by David Nussbaum, who took his experience working on huge holograms for arena gigs, movie premieres and fashion shows to produce a hologram in a box called the Epic. The idea is to plonk the machine in a venue, university, boardroom, medical facility and so on, and allow folks to chat with a life-like 3D hologram of a person who might be thousands of miles away.<\/p>\n<p>So instead of a tiny image on a smartphone screen, the viewer essentially gets to interact with someone as if they\u2019re actually in the room for a more natural communications experience. LED lighting inside the box helps with shadows and reflections for added realism, the front of the unit is touch-enabled, microphones and speakers are cooked in, and there are AI-powered cameras onboard too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in August 2021, LA-based Portl launched a 7-ft-tall hologram projection box for life-like remote communications. Now renamed Proto, the company has revealed that its Epic technology is allowing cancer patients to consult life-size virtual specialists. Proto was founded in 2018 by David Nussbaum, who took his experience working on huge holograms for arena gigs, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1923,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-holograms","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}