XR Experience: Luke AR
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2 min readApr 6, 2019
- Application name and platform: LUKE AR, Iphone app
- Description — This app allows you to look at the human anatomy through AR with a life sized model. You are able to look at all the different systems, including the skeleton and internal organs.
- Audience — It says the app is for ages 12 +, so I think it is more aimed for kids and adults seeking some basic knowledge about the human anatomy in a more interactive way. I wouldn’t say it is for medical students because it isn’t very detailed or functional enough for serious studying.
- XR Implementation — It is an AR experience that is accessible through an iPhones or iPad. The application uses your camera to scan a surface in a room to place the life sized model in a real environment.
- Supporting Technologies — The only supporting technology used is the phone’s camera, which is used to place the person in the room, take photos and videos of the anatomy.
- Strengths — The application’s strengths are that you can move throughout the entire person and see each organ, nerve, and bone. It is a really interesting concept to have a life sized person to study anatomy rather than seeing it only in books. It makes learning about the human anatomy more interesting by being able to navigate through the body to see where the organs and bones are located. They have more advanced versions of this in medical schools and hospitals, so this is a good version for less advanced adults or children. Overall, it is really simple to use and anyone with an iPhone can have access to it.
- Improvement — When using the application, it can be really sensitive to movement. For example, you have to move only the slightest amount through the model to see the other organs or else it disappears. I think in future updates the parts of the anatomy could be more detailed and less computer generated. In addition, I think the model could be designed to look more human when it first appears. Right now it looks creepy because the eyes are bulging and it resembles a humanized robot more than a real person.
- SLAM — This app uses SLAM by tracking the real world environment and placing a virtual object in the space. The use of SLAM prevents the AR person from being placed in the way of objects that are already in the space. It also allows for the user to move around the skeleton in order to see all around the skeleton’s anatomy and look through the body at the organs.
