Texas State University researchers, in collaboration with ArchieMD, a leading provider of visually-based health science education, are developing an innovative augmented reality medical training technology for the United States Army through the U.S. Department of Defense.
Texas State’s Alex Zakhidov, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics, is overseeing a team of six on the project, including post-doctoral researcher Chris Manspeaker, graduate students Eric Welch, Kevin Lyon and Garrett Merrion, and undergraduate students Zachary Rangel and Lauren Trombley. ArchieMD was awarded a two-year, $1 million grant from the Army for the project, of which Zakhidov’s group has received approximately $500,000 to develop the hardware component.
“Typically, if you or I get injured, within 15 minutes we’re in a hospital,” Zakhidov explained. “But soldiers on a mission, involved in an ongoing fight, sometimes they need to wait for several days before they can get treated by a doctor. By that time, unfortunately, the wound aggravates. It becomes even worse.”
