Incremed is putting the AR in healthcare

Building on the skills of its interdisciplinary, Zurich-based team specialised in medical augmented reality (AR) software development, and its collaborations with international medical staff and the medical technology (medtech) industry,…

Project for Futuristic Surgical Training Receives CHF 12 Million in Funding

The Swiss Federal Agency for Innovation Promotion (Innosuisse) is supporting the “PROFICIENCY” project, in which ORamaVR S.A. is a full partner, with a total of CHF 12 million over the…

New medical society studies how metaverse will change healthcare

The medical community recently inaugurated a society to research how to apply metaverse, a convergence of virtual and physical space, to the healthcare sector.On Thursday, professors from the Seoul National…

Magic Leap grants healthcare startups access to its new AR headset ahead of mid-2022 release

Ahead of a planned enterprise release later this year, Magic Leap has provided a group of healthcare companies with early access to its second-generation augmented reality headset. One of the…

2022 forecast: AR, VR poised to send medtech into the next dimension

A recent market research report estimated that between 2021 and 2026, the market for virtual reality in healthcare will grow by nearly 35% annually, swelling the market to more than…

VR treatment for chronic pain gets FDA authorization

The Food and Drug Administration authorized a virtual reality system as a prescription treatment for chronic back pain, the agency announced today. The therapy, called EaseVRx, joins the short list…

AppliedVR scores $36M for virtual reality pain management

AppliedVR, developer of virtual reality therapeutics, has scooped up $36 million in Series B funding months after it closed a Series A round. The Series B, which included investments from…

Fresenius Medical Care uses virtual reality technology to train patients for home dialysis

In peritoneal dialysis, which is used by about 11 percent of the approximately 3.7 million dialysis patients worldwide, the lining of the patient’s abdominal cavity – the peritoneum – acts…

FDA OKs Virtual-Reality Device to Correct Vision Disorder in Kids

The FDA approved the digital therapeutic device Luminopia One for pediatric amblyopia, or lazy eye.The device is approved for children ages 4 to 7 years with anisometropia and/or strabismus and…

FDA clears augmented reality smartglasses for guiding knee replacement surgeries

Built into a pair of glasses, the newly FDA-cleared Knee+ system uses a camera to help judge the alignment of instruments and the knee joint itself within the surgeon’s field of…