It has been used with over 250 final year medical students in Queen’s University of Belfast, as part of a session called ‘The Simulated Eye Clinic’. Most had never used…
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Health care is already benefiting from VR
This article is a short summary of VR uses in healthcare from mental therapies to surgery training. It emphasizes the actual need of robust studies on VR efficiency, especially in…
Harvis: an interactive virtual reality tool for hemodynamic modification and simulation
In this article, authors present new vascular simulations with VR visualisation. We thus developed Harvis, a software platform with a flexible GUI for performing vascular simulations and a VR-capable interface…
InSimo crée des patients virtuels pour apprendre les gestes chirurgicaux
Le produit présenté par la société permet aux étudiants de s’entraîner dans des conditions proches du réel puisque les sensations haptiques sont rendues grâce à un bras à retour de…
Taiwan university develops VR horseback riding
The National Pingtung University in Taiwan develop a very special device of VR to help patients in the rehabilitation period : an horseback riding simulator. Combining immersion and game, the…
College of Medicine developing virtual reality training simulation
The Ohio State College of Medicine made a VR simulation to train medical students (and professionals) in a mass-casualty events context. The program has been grant by Agency for Healthcare…
The Living Heart: FDA renews contract with Dassault to evaluate 3D simulation, virtual patients
The Living Heart Project of Dassault Systèmes allows virtual experiments on medical devices and even drugs since last year. There are now 130 partners in this project and the collaboration…
Vicky Smalley presents FundamentalVR at AWE USA 2019
In this video Vicky Smalley (CTO of FundamentalVR) presents company software products and the vision behind present and future developments. She enhances the importance of accurate haptic simulation in surgery…
A Breakthrough in Medical Simulation for the Battlefield with PerSim
The United States Army will use soon an AR devices to train medical staff in realistic conditions. MedCognition will bring a set of scenarios related to medical operations in battlefield…
Les médecins britanniques peuvent pratiquer Des soins d’urgence en réalité virtuelle
Le National Health Service anglais et la société Oxford Medical Simulation ont mis au point un outil en réalité virtuelle permettant aux médecins de s’entraîner à prendre en charge des…