“See your body like never before – from the inside out.”

This was how the BBC described Your Body Uncovered, a television programme that uses Microsoft HoloLens 2 to help people understand their medical conditions and potential treatments by allowing them to see a digital replica of the inside of their bodies.

With the patients and their consultant each wearing the mixed reality headset, they can both see the same 3D images at the same time. When the consultant rotates, expands, shrinks or moves the images using hand gestures, the patient will see those changes, too. This allows patients to embark on a unique guided tour of their medical issue, giving them a detailed yet easy-to-understand view of what’s happening inside their body.

There were six episodes in series one, each lasting around an hour, and they focused on conditions including cancer, COVID-19, stroke and gallstones.

To bring those to life in front of people, the programme’s producers, Remarkable TV, reached out to Dr Philip Pratt, a former Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London, and Chief Scientific Officer at Medical iSight. The company uses HoloLens 2 to create 3D visualisations of the human body to allow surgeons to “look inside” patients and visualise their blood vessels, bones and internal organs.