Midjourney announces AI spas and full-body imaging chambers straight out of a sci-fi movie
Midjourney is pivoting from free text-to-image models to AI (artificial intelligence) spas, releasing a full-body scanner that looks like it came straight out of a Sci-Fi movie.
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Midjourney is pivoting from free text-to-image models to AI (artificial intelligence) spas, releasing a full-body scanner that looks like it came straight out of a Sci-Fi movie.
- Midjourney is moving beyond AI image and video tools with a planned full-body scanner that aims to make advanced health scanning feel as simple as visiting a spa.
- "The Midjourney Scanner" uses water and underwater sensors to send ultrasonic waves through the body, creating detailed 3D maps in about 60 seconds.
- The goal is to collect huge amounts of body data quickly and affordably, offering MRI-like insight without the cost, time, or clinical feel of traditional scans.
- Midjourney says the scanner can map the body down to a fraction of a millimeter by measuring how sound waves change as they pass through different tissues.
- The first 24/7 Midjourney Spa is planned for San Francisco in 2027, with hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges, and scanning rooms designed around preventative healthcare.
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The research lab, best known for its text-to-image and text-to-video models, has turned a full 180 degrees and is now promising to revolutionize modern healthcare with an AI-powered water chamber.
To properly understand how the human body works, experts often want to examine substantial amounts of data.
But collecting enough data to gain a comprehensive insight into how the body works requires a lot of money, and even more time.
Midjourney is attempting to close this gap by developing technologies that are optimized specifically for getting as many “megabytes per second per dollar” of data about you, according to Midjourney.
While this Sci-Fi full-body scanner looks like it's come straight from the set of Ridley Scott’s Alien, what researchers hope to achieve could flip the healthcare industry on its head.
The full-body scanner, or “The Midjourney Scanner,” requires users or patients to step onto a golden platform.
The platform will then descend until the subject is submerged in water and surrounded by a ring of underwater sensors.
These sensors then send “ultrasonic sound waves” through every angle of the user's body until the roughly 60-second process is complete.
“You go into the water, you come out of the water, and you're done.”
The Midjourney Scanner produces terabytes per second
The challenge is to create something “as powerful as an MRI” but as “casual as a trip to a spa,” but Midjourney thinks they’ve done it.
The technology behind the water chamber is complex, as millions of tiny squares as fine as a grain of sand create ultrasonic waves that record energy at “millions of times per second.”
Midjourney describes the devices as both a choir and an audience, acting as both a tiny speaker and a microphone that sends out signals while also measuring them as they return.
These ultrasonic waves then travel through the human body, bouncing and bending in different ways as they encounter different parts of the body.
“The shape of these waves changes whenever there is a change in density or stiffness…by looking at how the shapes of the waves change, we reconstruct a detailed map or ‘image’ which basically lets us figure out what’s in there.”
Once this “inconceivable volume of data” is collected, all the images are used to create a 3D map of the user's body “down to a fraction of a millimeter.”
24/7 Midjourney spa opening in 2027
These scanners aren’t just a work of fiction, as Midjourney announced that it’s launching The Midjourney Spa at the end of 2027.
The first will open in the heart of San Francisco, where Midjourney is based, and isn’t just about body scans.
“Our spa will have hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges, and cozy rooms with pools of golden light that softly scan your body.”
The spa is supposedly the main attraction, as this promise of revolution in preventative healthcare is “a side-effect.”
Over the next year, Midjourney will be refining algorithms and hardware daily while organizing research trials of The Midjourney Scanner.
The research lab, which is community-backed and not investor-funded, promises that the scanner will democratize healthcare by empowering anyone to use the tech.
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