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Looking ahead: Midjourney built its name on AI-generated images. Now, it is talking about something far more ambitious: scanning the human body. In a post this week, the company outlined plans for a body-scanning system built around ultrasonic sensing and large-scale data capture. The idea is to generate detailed, three-dimensional images of the body in under a minute, with performance the company says could rival MRI scans but without the same discomfort.
The concept is still largely theoretical, but the company describes a system built around an enormous number of tiny sensors working in tandem. A person would pass through a scanning chamber where ultrasonic signals are directed at the body from all sides, capturing internal data from multiple angles at once. Midjourney describes the setup as a softly lit, pool-like space where people descend through a ring of sensors that operate on echolocation principles to build a detailed internal image of the body.
At full scale, the company envisions a ring containing roughly half a million sensors, each about the size of a grain of sand. Together, they would generate a constant stream of ultrasonic signals, producing what Midjourney says could amount to terabytes of data every second.
