According to Mejia, the technology has emerged as a potential teaching tool for young fellows to recognize what they are looking for during surgery. Mejia said the VR imaging can also help when ...

Using virtual reality (VR) to explain what to expect ahead of a medical procedure could help patients better understand their ...

Passive distraction through three-dimensional (3D) virtual reality (VR) and two-dimensional (2D) video is equally effective in reducing anxiety in children during the induction of anesthesia before ...

Dr. Robert Louis, director of the skull base and pituitary tumor program at the Hoag Neurosciences Institute, didn’t set out to use virtual reality as a tool for patient engagement. Originally, Louis ...

A surgery team in the UK successfully utilized the recently-released Apple Vision Pro to assist spinal surgery — a fascinating use case for the augmented reality (AR) headsets that goes far beyond ...

SurgicalED VR, led by Virginia Commonwealth University urogynecologist Lauren Siff, recently won a pitch competition presented by the Richmond university’s first-ever startup accelerator program for ...

Theodore Evans was born on a Thursday. Three days later, on Dec. 8, 2024, as the family prepared to go home from Lakeview Hospital in Covington, Veronica Evans handed her son off to a nurse for his ...