By Kelly Izlar
(From left) Bo Ji, Brendan David-John, and graduate student Matthew Corbett devised a new method to protect bystander privacy in augmented reality. Photo by Kelly Izlar for Virginia Tech.
An emergency room doctor using augmented reality could save precious seconds by quickly checking a patient’s vitals or records. But the doctor could also unintentionally pull information for someone else in the room, breaching privacy and health care laws.