

⁃Listed as one of Tech Crunch's top 20 apps ⁃No.1 Health & Fitness app - App Store Rewind ⁃Chosen by the App Store as "App of the Week" There was a great response and it gave us a lot of credibility,” says Moore.IMUSCLE 2 IS A HIGHLY VISUAL, 3D-BASED, AWARD-WINNING HEALTH AND FITNESS APP WITH EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO PLAN AND TRACK YOUR FITNESS PROGRAM. “They showcased 3D4Medical as a poster company for developers. This year, Apple also sent a team of around 25 people to Dublin to shoot a video of 3D4Medical for its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that took place in June. “Our apps have featured have been in three iPad ads and also in the new iPad mini ad.” The Apple vibeįinally, Moore says that the company has a very close working relationship with Apple. It is another patient education app,” he explains.Īll of 3D4Medical’s apps are developed in collaboration with Stanford University School of Medicine. We will have over 200 animations on it – everything from showing a cavity and a root canal. “We’re also bringing out a dental app that has taken us years to develop. Upcoming apps in the pipeline, he says, will include iMuscle for Home and an iDance app, which will be based upon the same technology as its iYoga app.ģD4Medical has also teamed up with an Irish rehab company and will be bringing out a group of rehabilitation apps aimed at physiotherapists. “We have sold over a million iMuscle apps over the last 15 months,” Moore explains.
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The app has also just been released as a Mac version. Via the iMuscle app, one is presented with a 3D man and you can zoom into any area of the body, touch a muscle, and the app will show you various exercises to build up that particular muscle.ģD4Medical’s iMuscle app has been No 1 in many countries in the Health and Fitness category on the Apple App Store. In addition, the company is targeting the consumer market with its fitness apps such as iMuscle and iYoga. Moore says that the company’s apps are also used for patient education.

The core business market for 3D4Medical’s apps is medical students and for doctors to use them medical references. We’ve got about 12 people in the Ukraine office, a couple of people in Russia and a couple of people in the US,” explains Moore.

“The very nature of the iPad with its large screen and processing powers just worked incredibly well with what we could do and push the boundaries.”ģD4Medical currently employs around 45 people and has its head office in Dublin, along with bases in the Ukraine, Russia and the US. However, Moore says that the real Eureka moment for the company came with the genesis of the iPad. We decided to take a punch and started developing medical applications for the iPhone.” “We could see that advertising budgets were being hit around the world so therefore we weren’t selling as much images. In 2007, however, he says that the company realised it had all these 3D models and assets and started to think about breaking into other marketplaces. “We create photo-realistic images and animations without any gore,” explains Moore. This side of the business is still running, with 3D4Medical creating the images in CAD before rendering them out and making them photo-realistic. He says that the stock image side went particularly well, with 3D4Medical’s images being used on the covers of such magazines as Time and National Geographic between 20. We were in partnership, and still are, with Getty Images and Corbis.” “We were one of the first companies to make 18,000 images of 3D medical stock images. Our tech start-up of the week is 3D4Medical, a Dublin-based developer of medical and fitness apps that is fast making waves in the med-tech and fitness app marketplace.ģD4Medical is the genesis of Irishman John Moore who set up the company in 2004 primarily as a stock image company.
