Training giant Pearson came to Microsoft with a revolutionary idea: medical students already are faced with actors portraying symptoms (and when needed made up by make-up professionals who work with medical professionals), could they standardize that approach, and potentially improve it by using volumetric capture and HoloLens devices to bring the same ‘patients’ to students no matter where they were? Standardization would make sure that student performance wasn’t dependent on how well or poorly an actor performed on a given day.

Microsoft worked with Pearson to create a prototype that was successful enough to add more patients, and expand the app.

During the prototype I worked closely with the actors, the make-up professionals, a representative from Pearson, and medical advisors to get solid performances from the actors, and ultimately high-quality content that made the prototype possible.

I also conceived of and produced promotional material that showed the scenario in use, which ultimately was picked up by multiple channels when talking about volumetric use cases.