Overview
What this challenge is about.
Build a HoloLens 2 AR app to place virtual hip implants with hand gestures, export placement JSON, and run a validation study. Earn a verifiable certificate.
The scenario
The company is a mid-sized German orthopedic implant maker (roughly 3,200 employees, EUR 780 million revenue) whose hip and knee systems compete on surgical precision, and it is exploring augmented reality to differentiate its pre-operative planning offering ahead of any regulatory submission.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Can a HoloLens 2 augmented-reality overlay let a surgeon accurately plan hip-implant placement on a three-dimensional scan, and is there a defensible European regulatory pathway to turn it into a product?
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Render volumetric medical scan data as a stable, spatially-anchored hologram on the HoloLens 2
- Design six-degrees-of-freedom hand interactions that let a non-technical clinician position an implant accurately and without fatigue
- Run a small structured usability-and-accuracy study and report results against a known ground truth
- Map a software prototype to the correct European Union Medical Device Regulation risk class and the standards that apply
- Communicate engineering and regulatory trade-offs to a mixed clinical and business audience
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Ar Development
Apply ar development to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Mixed Reality Applications
Apply mixed reality applications to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- 3d Interaction
Apply 3d interaction to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Tracking
Apply tracking to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Regulatory Research
Apply regulatory research to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Immersive Design
Apply immersive design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Mixed Reality Engineer
Builds augmented- and virtual-reality applications for headsets like the HoloLens 2. This challenge mirrors the core loop of the role: loading 3D content, designing spatial hand interactions, and keeping holograms stable under real-world tracking conditions.
This challenge sharpens
- ar-development
- mixed-reality-applications
- tracking
Medical Device Software Engineer
Develops software intended for clinical settings under regulatory constraints. The challenge pairs hands-on prototyping with regulatory scoping and structured validation, exactly the blend of engineering and compliance reasoning the role demands.
This challenge sharpens
- ar-development
- regulatory-research
- 3d-interaction
3D Interaction Designer
Designs how people manipulate objects in immersive 3D space. Running a study where surgeons position implants by hand teaches you to design and validate spatial interactions against real usability and accuracy evidence.
This challenge sharpens
- 3d-interaction
- immersive-design
- mixed-reality-applications