Image credit to Titan Medical Inc.

As spring takes over this April, so does good news. SenseGraphics is happy to join with Canadian Titan Medical Inc. in developing simulator software for their next generation robotic surgical Amadeus (TM). The year ahead will be a busy one filled with excitement as SenseGraphics embarks on its journey with Titan in the promising field of robotic surgery!

More details on this partnership can be found in the official press release by Titan Medical Inc.

SenseGraphics has joined forces with Swedish startup company (and company office neighbor) Jdome to present a really interesting product.

A foldable Dome solution with integrated haptics: single or dual use, 2D or real 3D stereo… it’s up to you! The complete solution package is ideal when you are on the move and want to impress on the audience giving the user a visual surround experience with haptics.

The Dome measures 1.5 meters in diameter and folds up in just a minute.

Meet SenseGraphics at MMVR18 in NewPort Beach for a world premiere of the Haystack Nerve Blocks training simulator and demonstration of the ScanTrainer Ultrasound simulator. There will also be demonstrations of the SenseGraphics H3DAPI developer platform with the SenseGraphics Display System for co-location of haptics and real 3D stereo graphics.

SenseGraphics is devoted to the science of multi-modal interaction and real 3D stereo visualization, with the vision to facilitate and support research- and commercial application development in the medical field.

Make your work fast with Open Source!
SenseGraphics flagship product H3DAPI sets the standard for multimodal research, medical and industrial application development in real 3D stereo graphics with haptics as available under both Open Source and commercial license. SenseGraphics’ latest invention, HAPI -haptic engine, is used for adding haptic interactions to graphical or other scientific applications, which makes it easier for these applications to be haptic-enabled with minimal rewriting of the existing code.

SenseGraphics is helping companies to develop and commercialize medical simulators. Successful customer reference work includes the Simodont Dental trainer from MOOG in the Netherlands, ScanTrainer Ultrasound training simulator from Medaphor in the UK, Stroke rehabilitation from Curictus in Sweden as well as the Haystack simulator for ultrasound guided peripheral nerve blocks from NDRC in Ireland.

Through the open source community, www.H3D.org, SenseGraphics has been able to quickly spread its software amongst researchers and gain broad, world-wide user support for H3DAPI by offering Wikis, tutorials and free support based forums.

SenseGraphics is also offering haptics hardware and 3D Display solutions for co-location of haptics and 3D stereo visualization.

If you are into application development or research using haptics and you think you can handshake… then this information might be of interest to you!?

Researchers at Ben Gurion University are calling for the best, or most life-like, Handshake algorithm there is…

The official call will take place during the 6th BGU-CMCW in June 2010 and the winner will be announced during the following happening of the same conference in year 2011.

I you feel for handshake algorithms and would like to take on this challenge please go: here…

We have’ve had so many new cool gadgets to play around with here at the SenseGraphics office lately: the Tobii Eyetracker, one ForceDimension Omega.7 (gripper with force feedback), we just did some first tries out and H3DAPI implementation on an industrial camera (swedish manufacturer) and we’ve also unpacked our own Phantom Desktop from SensAble that we will have here at the office for specific application demos. But we are still waiting for one big wodden box containing a simulator that we’ve been part of developing software for… it should be here any minute now.

SenseGraphics has been helping UK company Medaphor to develop the “world’s most advanced ultrasound training simulator”. The ScanTrainer has now been released to the public during the British Society for Gynaecological Imaging annual scientific meeting (April 15th). The ScanTrainer web page is up with more information including video presentation of the ScanTrainer, check it out at http://www.ScanTrainer.com.

Imagine you could enter a virtual room. Look around in real 3D stereo graphics, reach out and touch objects, manipulate with things that are close to you.

Check this out!