Tag: Children’s Hospital of Orange County

Honda Uses Virtual Reality to Transport CHOC Patients into a Magical Snow Globe for the Holidays

Stuart Mitchell

For the holiday season, Honda is using virtual reality to create a one-of-a-kind winter wonderland in “The Magic Snow Globe,” an interactive world personalized for patients at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC Children’s). Honda invited the young patients at CHOC Children’s to go inside a real snow globe through a “shrinking machine.” Using VR technology, the kids experienced the feeling of shrinking and being transported inside the snow globe. Once inside, they explored and interacted with all sorts of holiday-themed elements in the virtual snow globe. “One of…

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Honda Brings Magical Holiday Card to Life for Pediatric Patients Using Personalized Augmented Reality and Crowdsourced Messaging

Stuart Mitchell

Honda is using augmented reality to deliver the “Ultimate Get Well Card”, a magical card filled with messages from well-wishers around the country and personalized for pediatric patients at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC). Honda transformed an actual CHOC hospital room into an augmented reality winter wonderland in order to bring to life crowdsourced messages from well-wishers to be viewed by young patients through an iPad, held in a custom designed holder, triggering a wintery augmented reality experience. “Sending warm wishes to others is one of the best…

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