Augmented reality has a wide array of areas that it can be of service. These include entertainment, medicine, business, education, and gaming. One of the most beneficial examples of an area that has been improved from augmented reality is in healthcare and medicine. It supports the practice, training, and planning of surgical procedures, and it provides surgeons with patient monitoring information and allows patient imaging records.
This process includes functional videos to be retrieved and superimposed. These include a virtual X-ray view, or real-time images from microscopy probes, ultrasound, the visual ability to view the position of a tumor in the video of an endoscope and radiation exposure risks from X-ray imaging apparatuses. It is now expected that doctors and nurses record patient information through unconventional methods, such as gesture technology paired with AR glasses, which allows the doctor to see critical details in plain sight.