The future plays out in the operating theatre
Virtual reality is making the leap from the realm of entertainment and marketing to solving real-world problems
Immersive technologies, such as augmented, virtual and mixed reality, were once considered futuristic. Today we experience them.Augmented reality (AR) comes to us though Pokémon Go or Snapchat filters and virtual reality via Google’s Cardboard, or the more expensive Sony PSVR gaming headset. And whereas AR functions in two dimensions, mixed reality (MR) blends the physical and digital worlds to allow the user to be immersed in 3D.These technologies have been poised to change many industries, one of them being medicine, where they are used to help train surgeons. A study published by the Harvard Business Review revealed that those who trained in VR on the Osso VR platform at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine received significantly higher ratings in all categories when compared with the traditionally trained group. The overall improvement in the total score was 230%.UCLA orthopedic surgeon Gideon Blumstein says that with a strained education system in the surgical field, rapid me...
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