How Video Glasses Will Enhance Your Way of Life
Video glasses are becoming more than just personal and portable entertainment devices. They are being deployed in professional industries to save time, decrease costs, increase efficiency, and even safeguard lives. This convenient technology is literally changing how we view the world around us, how we process information, and how we use that data to improve modern needs and lifestyles. This is apparent in the fields of medicine, military defense, and engineering.
Surgical operations are extremely delicate, considering how the patient’s well-being is at stake. Use of video glasses during an operation could involve referencing a patient’s medical history. Past x-rays could be seen without stopping and wasting time. Maybe a neurosurgeon will be sent the latest, most up-to-date information specific to the occipital lobe of the brain. This tidbit of data, however small, could mean the difference between life and death.
The greater majority of dental clients would prefer to avoid office visits at all costs, though dental care is a necessary component of overall health. Video glasses have recently been used by dentists to help allay patient fears during dental appointments. When a patient wears video glasses, they become calmer and are naturally sedated. Keeping the client’s mind on an enjoyable movie is enough to reduce heightened stress levels. This assuredly distracts the mind of the patient, for nearly everyone is intimately familiar with the horrific sound of a dental drill.
Other medical professions which will certainly benefit from video glasses are paramedics, emergency room doctors, and even veterinarians.
The military has the task of defending our country’s hard-earned freedoms. Lives are often lost to uphold our way of life. Video eyewear will be a vital asset to protecting our troops when they must travel in harm’s way. Currently, the popularity of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) requires a trooper to be seated in front of a panel during operations. With video glasses, a soldier could now accompany troops to provide the latest, most up-to-date, real-time information on the objective. Data such as the latest weather, number of enemy insurgents, and map positioning will all combine to increase the level of success during a mission.
Video glasses used by technicians, mechanics, and engineers, will be able to pinpoint, diagnose, and repair problems with machinery such as airplane engines and hydroelectric power plants. Imagine being able to access entire libraries of repair manuals at a moment’s notice, providing the technician with a list of procedures to help repair an avionics panel so as nothing is left out. Maybe they need to know precisely how much psi a pneumatic pump should be indicating, or how many volts a car alternator should be outputting. Engineers could analyze entire systems while being fed real-time information about a nuclear-powered generator. Costly repairs could be avoided, and efficiency will increase.
These industries listed will benefit greatly from the implementation of video glasses. The many possibilities and uses of video goggles have yet to be thoroughly explored. Real-time information will be the epitome of video glasses – volumes of practical and pertinent information available at a moment’s notice before our very eyes.
By: Luis Knight
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Filed under Computers And Technology by on Nov 18th, 2010.
