The Latest in XR for Health
Pain Management / Patient Well-Being / Pediatrics
by Angie Banuelos · Published December 16, 2018 · Last modified December 15, 2018
Virtual reality headsets reduce childrens’ anxiety during hospital procedures By Karelyn EvE Lambert — A trip to the hospital can be paralyzing For a child, hospital procedures such as drawing blood, injections or surgical...
Mental Health / Oculus Rift / Patient Well-Being
by Angie Banuelos · Published December 14, 2018 · Last modified January 10, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAhrQ5zng3s FDA-registered medical applications provide immersive experiences By Karelyn EvE Lambert – As one of the first virtual reality healthcare companies that is ISO-certified and provides applications that are FDA authorized, VRHealth is breaking...
Patient Well-Being / Surgical Training / Virtual Reality
by Angie Banuelos · Published November 15, 2018
PrecisionOS offers three different virtual reality applications to give surgeons experience prior to procedures. By Kristi Hansen Onkka — Precision OS brings surgical training using immersive virtual reality. This use case for virtual reality enables...
Clinical Utility / Prosthetics / Virtual Reality
by Angie Banuelos · Published October 4, 2018 · Last modified October 2, 2018
Project uses virtual reality to create mental link Losing a limb, whether by amputation or otherwise, can be a jarring experience for a person and for their body. Learning to function without a limb or with...
In the world of immersive health, partnerships play a big role in hospital-wide adoption. This is very visible in the partnership announced in 2017 between virtual reality company Oculus and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). The partnership...
Obstetrics/Maternity / Pediatrics / Virtual Reality
by Angie Banuelos · Published September 25, 2018 · Last modified January 4, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9C9w8sDVLk The Guardian’s third virtual reality venture is called First Impressions. It’s available on Daydream View, Google’s mobile VR platform. By Chelsea Nicole The Guardian is well-known as one of the most popular news sources...
Munich-based virtual reality fitness company ICAROS recently receive an investment by Venture capital group Segnalita in order to enable it to enter the medical sector. “ICAROS supplies products that are unique and promising to date,...
Meet Dr. Krummel, an early visionary and advocate for VR surgical training. Thomas M. Krummel, MD, FACS/FAAP is an Emile Holman Professor, and Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and of Bioengineering and Co-Director, Stanford Byers...
Augmented Reality / Google Glass / Maternity
by Angie Banuelos · Published July 2, 2018 · Last modified July 5, 2018
Trial in 2014 highlighted the need for collaboration in learning process The process of learning to breastfeed isn’t quite what it used to be. Traditionally, new mothers were able to draw on support from...
By Halle Hershberger — Life after limb loss is filled with unknown questions as to whether patients can resume normal activities. However, the Hanger Clinic based out of Austin, Texas recently introduced a new...
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