The Lenovo case study: 2 data scientists walk into a pub

“But not any ordinary pub. A virtual pub. The landlord is David Sime, CTO and co-director of Riiot (Realities in Internet of Things) Digital, who speaks (a.o.) about Holoxica’s Holoviewer. It’s an app that turns data into 3D visualisations, without the need for any headsets or goggles.

Instead, Holoviewer uses Looking Glass Light Field 3D displays. When put together, these displays can project 3D holograms and animations. Think the famous recording of Princess Leia in Star Wars but in colour and HD. Rather than sending a distress signal to a Jedi Knight though, Looking Glass displays and Holoviewer are used for medical education, anatomy visualisation, surgical training to make accurate medical diagnoses , inspect buildings, digital twins etc.

Other machines have struggled to run Holoviewer smoothly. But as you’ll see in the above video, not the P620.

“Soon we’re going to be doing a live transatlantic stream using Looking Glass,” David tells us. Holoxica already developed 3D Telepresence running on the Looking Glass displays. “Impressing a client with a volumetric recording (that’s filming something from all angles to you and us) means it has to be flawless. Thousands of screens all working in unison. It takes an immense amount of processing power, and it’s all done from a single P620 workstation.”

Sources: Original article on Lenovo's website, Video on David Sime’s Youtube channel

Image: Holoxica’s cataract surgery 3D animation displayed with our Holoviewer software on a Lenovo and a 15.6” and 32” Gen1 Looking Glass display.