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FundamentalVR, an immersive simulation platform for medical and healthcare professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to "accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency" through ...

Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies are redefining various fields, including medicine. These advanced technologies are rapidly being adopted in medical training and therapy, ...

Virtual reality is redefining what is possible in the healthcare industry. Patients are already benefiting from advanced and more precise surgeries, simulations for mental illness treatments and many ...

According to a recent report from the market research firm Research and Markets, universities are increasingly turning to augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) to train nursing students and ...

One of the first applications of VR in medicine was the pre-visualization of upcoming operations. The surgeon could navigate a 3D view of the patient's MRI or other scans, get a sense for what they ...

Japanese VR medical device maker Jolly Good, together with the Nippon Medical School, a private university in Tokyo, has developed a cloud-based clinical education platform that uses VR. The education ...

The developed PHSMCC curriculum will include a variety of mission profiles, including ocean personnel recovery missions such as the one depicted here. Image from a simulated virtual environment used ...

There is huge potential to apply extended reality (XR) technologies – namely, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) – to healthcare. From self-care and wellbeing to treatment and even ...

Every now and again, a certain technology comes along that solves a number of different industry challenges, from labor scarcity to inefficient manufacturing, production downtime to non-standard ...