Your holographic doctor will visit you now
A patient walks into a hospital room, sits down, and starts talking to a doctor. Only in this case, the doctor is a hologram.It may sound like science fiction, but it’s reality for some patients at Crescent Regional Hospital in Lancaster, Texas.In May, the hospital group began offering patients the ability to see their doctor remotely as a hologram through a partnership with Holoconnects, a digital technology company based in the Netherlands.Each Holobox — the company's name for its 440-pound, 7-foot-tall device that displays a highly realistic 3D live video of a person on a screen — costs $42,000, with an additional $1,900 annual service fee.The high-quality image gives the patient the sensation that a doctor is sitting inside the box, when in reality the doctor is miles away looking ...