Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 18
Trend:
Euronews has released a report on the Bakutel-2017 exhibition in Baku.
The channel also spoke to Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliyev, about the importance of the exhibition.
"ICT development is one of the top priorities for our country," Ilham Aliyev said. "We are planning to continue the policy of diversification of our economy and, in this respect, development of ICT is very important."
The report notes that Virtual and Augmented Reality were the stars of this year’s edition of Bakutel, Azerbaijan’s International Telecommunication and Information Technologies Exhibition.
"One of the trends this year was the combination of the two technologies for applications in fields ranging from art to medicine. One stand featured connected surgical glasses help surgeons better visualize the features of a patient’s face during an operation," reads the article.
“The general concept of this project is to combine the virtual anatomy of each patient with the real anatomy of the patient who will be operated. During surgery, if you are wearing these glasses, you can see the internal anatomy of the patient – it’s like looking through the skin of the face, you can see the facial skeleton, the muscles, the nerves, the vessels and so on," Ismayil Ferzeliyev, doctor, Azerbaijan Medical University told Euronews.
Virtual Reality is still a key element in the gaming world, but the field of application of this technology is growing fast, according to the article.
“This platform that you see is not only for gaming. A lot of countries use it in medicine. Our company has started to develop some platforms especially for medicine, for training – for example fire training, said Aygun Hasanova, spokeswoman, Phobia VR.
The article notes that Bakutel is a unique platform for professionals in the ICT field to meet. This edition brought together more than 190 companies from 20 countries.
“‘Wand’ is an electronic device that sends every scratch you made on the paper via bluetooth to your smartphone’s application. After you have written on the paper the ink evaporates after 30 minutes but during this time your data has been safely saved on our servers in our software application," Wand’ project manager Elchin Aghazade told Euronews.
According to a 2016 World Bank study, ICT has strong growth potential in Azerbaijan, which is faced with the challenge of diversifying its economy away from energy resources to create new sources of growth, the article reads.
