Research Article

How to Build a Patient-Specific Hybrid Simulator for Orthopaedic Open Surgery: Benefits and Limits of Mixed-Reality Using the Microsoft HoloLens

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Optimal and comfort zones for placing virtual content as declared by Microsoft for HoloLens mixed-reality applications. Discomfort from the vergence-accommodation conflict can be avoided or minimized by keeping content that users converge to as close to 2.0 m as possible. When the content cannot be placed near 2.0 m, the discomfort can be reduced by keeping the virtual content positioning stable over the time.