badmonk

MacPro said:

Stereoscopic camera on the pro iPhones soon, seems a logical next step to me.

Agree MacPro, if you don’t have to wear the goggly-eyed headset when you shot 3D VR video, it will rapidly accelerate adoption.

mikethemartian said:

No hospital is going to rely on an Apple consumer product for a safety critical task such as surgery.

Actually healthcare workers prefer to use iPhones and iPads because of their dependability for our clinical work.  As an ICU physician, I relay on multiple iOS applications to get realtime data, communicate to colleagues and get access to drug and disease information.  Apple watches are almost ubiquitous, especially among my anesthesia colleagues.  The ratio of iPhones to android devices among practitioners (physicians, PAs and NPs) is greater than 10:1 in my experience.  Among RNs it is more like the general population with a bit more androids (though iPhones are still more prominent).

And we constantly bitch about the poor design of hospital based IT systems though Epic and Cerner are decent.

When I saw Apple demo the AVP, I immediately began to think about medical applications.  Getting quick data, especially realtime laboratory data is a challenge during medical urgencies & a virtual overlay would be of immense benefit to us.  But obviously you can’t be closed off to your environment in a crisis and need your hands to do procedures.  Time will tell.

This is the unfolding ritual of an new Apple product reveal-

1. Existing companies make half-baked products that don’t get mass adoption.

2. Apple toils away in secret to improve the product.

3. The product is released and competitors and tech-pundits criticize it as too expensive and unnecessary.

4. Apple continues to redefine it and elicits the support of developers and customers.

5. Competitors copy features of the Apple product that they could not envision.

6. Most give up because they lack Apple’s manufacturing scale and ability to reinvest in innovation.

I agree that in this karmic cycle, Mark Z will play the role of Steve Ballmer.

Seems like humans are doing a good job of destroying Earth by ourselves without the use of an AI.

AI may come to the same conclusion and offer a solution for the problem of us.

I tried to talk to chatGPT about this and it was evasive about its opinions.

The problem is that AI may be a form of unrecognizable intelligence that may see no value in HI.  And HI may not be truly intelligent after all.

We are primates first and intelligent actors second.  As proof note our societal fragmentation into tribes.

Pulse-oximetry technology is so long-standing and defined (50 year anniversary of the technology was last year) that it is hard to imagine they have a case.