I was recently asked to write the VR/AR section of a 3D printing review paper. As part of my section, I presented a literature review of the current research that’s been investigating the use of virtual and augmented reality to view medical models. One of the growing uses of these modern technologies is as an …
Medical VR’s long history Applications of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have been around since at least the early 1990s. Numerous early applications, including a VR-based surgical planning process using hardware developed by NASA, often had to do with helping doctors visualize complex anatomy with the aim of facilitating surgical planning and training. We’re all …
The ability of VR to create imagined worlds that are unconstrained from physical limitations gives us access to many new opportunities to fight the tyranny of the past.