There was the world's first VR-broadcast a surgical operation
View was organized through the company created a mobile app called VRinOR. The app works as a full-fledged with VR-gadgets such as Samsung VR, and with cheaper simulators like Google Cardboard. Users without any gadgets virtual reality could watch the broadcast via the Medical Realities website.
The operation was a surgical procedure to remove the tumor from the intestine of 70-year-old patient. Name the operated were not disclosed, but the patient was not against organized and broadcast, according to the British press, "was delighted by the idea."
The operation was conducted Dr. Ahmed Shafi (Shafi Ahmed), already having experience in conducting transactions with the use of additional and far from the medical field of gadgets. In 2014, the surgeon had to remove the tumor 78-year-old patient, while being in the Google Glass glasses, filmed everything on camera. Tu broadcast watched by more than 13,000 medical students around the world.
Later in the Medical Realities plan to improve the technology of VR-broadcasts of surgical operations, adding video numerous elements of virtual reality, which could interact with the audience, up to provide tactile contact.
This technology can be used for training of interns around the world, giving them the ability to conduct virtual surgery or observe the actions of the best doctors, feeling his own presence in the operating room. According to Dr. Shafi Ahmed, for young professionals it is extremely important to feel the real atmosphere of the operating to learn how to cope with anxiety and not be distracted during the process of surgery to other sounds and objects.
The operation was a surgical procedure to remove the tumor from the intestine of 70-year-old patient. Name the operated were not disclosed, but the patient was not against organized and broadcast, according to the British press, "was delighted by the idea."
The operation was conducted Dr. Ahmed Shafi (Shafi Ahmed), already having experience in conducting transactions with the use of additional and far from the medical field of gadgets. In 2014, the surgeon had to remove the tumor 78-year-old patient, while being in the Google Glass glasses, filmed everything on camera. Tu broadcast watched by more than 13,000 medical students around the world.
Later in the Medical Realities plan to improve the technology of VR-broadcasts of surgical operations, adding video numerous elements of virtual reality, which could interact with the audience, up to provide tactile contact.
This technology can be used for training of interns around the world, giving them the ability to conduct virtual surgery or observe the actions of the best doctors, feeling his own presence in the operating room. According to Dr. Shafi Ahmed, for young professionals it is extremely important to feel the real atmosphere of the operating to learn how to cope with anxiety and not be distracted during the process of surgery to other sounds and objects.