Telehealth · Hologram consultation
A life size holographic doctor appears in the patient’s consult room via a Holobox connected to the specialist’s studio. Two way conversation, natural eye contact, and consultation-fidelity that reads to the patient as an in person visit, without the specialist traveling to the site.
The problem
Video conferencing for medical consults works logistically. It doesn’t work perceptually, the patient sees a face on a screen, not a person in the room. That gap matters when the consultation itself is stressful (a diagnosis, a treatment plan decision, a specialist explaining a complex condition).
The Holobox closes the gap. A life size hologram of the specialist stands in the consult room, at parity with a physical presence for eye contact, gesture, and perceived engagement.
How it works
The specialist stands in front of a Holobox at their studio (often attached to a teaching hospital or academic centre). A patient arrives at a consult room with a Holobox in a remote hospital, clinic, or rural site. The two are linked over a network. When the patient walks in, the specialist appears at life size, ready to consult.
Latency is low enough for natural conversation. The specialist can see the patient through the co-located capture rig; the patient sees the specialist as a life size projection with depth. Same consult, different rooms. It is holographic telepresence applied to clinical care.
In production
The first US hospital to run a Holobox for real time telehealth consultations. Patients in Texas consult with specialists appearing at life size in the exam room. See the case study library for the full deployment context and outcomes.
Beyond consultation
The same Holobox that supports live specialist consults also plays pre recorded content: 3D anatomical guidance for pre operative education, procedure-specific patient information at full scale, and post operative follow-up materials. Content flows through the Recording Station like any other Holobox deployment.
Common questions
A hologram doctor consultation is a life-size holographic remote consult: a specialist appears at full scale in the patient's consult room via a Holobox linked to the doctor's studio, for real-time two-way conversation that reads to the patient as an in-person visit, with no headset or glasses.
For eye contact, gesture, and perceived presence it reads to the patient as in-person, unlike a flat video call where the specialist is a face on a screen. The specialist sees the patient through a co-located capture rig and latency is low enough for natural conversation. It does not replace physical examination, but it closes the perceptual gap for diagnosis, treatment-plan and specialist-explanation consults.
No. The patient sits in a consult room with a Holobox and sees the life-size specialist with the naked eye, from a normal seat. The equipment sits at the two sites (a Holobox at the patient's location, a Holobox plus capture at the specialist's studio); the patient brings nothing.
Crescent Regional Hospital in Texas was the first US hospital to run a Holobox for real-time telehealth consultations, with specialists appearing life-size in the exam room. See the case study library for the full deployment context.
Yes. The same Holobox also plays pre-recorded 3D anatomical guidance for pre-operative education, procedure-specific patient information at full scale, and post-operative follow-up, produced through the Recording Station like any other Holobox content.
