Adam Davis (Amalgamated Vision) on Focusing on What Matters with Wearable Displays for Healthcare and Enterprise

Dr. Adam Davis is the founder and CEO of Amalgamated Vision, a maker of wearable displays optimized for use as a reference display in healthcare and enterprise. 

Adam spent a career as a practicing physician focused on neruo-radiology, and regularly explored and pushed the boundaries of using 3D imagery to better understand each patient’s physiology. 

Most recently, he was a clinical associate professor and the Director of the Image Processing Lab at NYU Medical Center. There he specialized in medical image post processing, volume rendering, user interface, data visualization, image based procedural and surgical guidance. He’s also done product development for Siemens Healthineers and Olea Medical.

It was from this deep appreciation for 3D medical imaging that Adam began developing a new type of wearable display highly suitable to medical environments. The team recently won the 2020 NASA iTech challenge alongside Mojo Vision.

In this conversation, we dig into the technology and the unique perspective that is driving its development.

The solution lies on your cheek bones, just below the primary visual field. It uses laser MEMs (laser beam scanning) with a novel pancake optic to project an image directly on the retina when you look down.

We start the conversation with some background on medical imaging and the impact that stereoscopy (that is seeing images in 3D) can have in medicine. 

You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.