A team of doctors collaborating across continents leveraged virtual reality tech to perform a risky surgery that successfully separated conjoined twins who had a fused brain, a condition ...

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 ...

FundamentalVR raised $20 million in funding for its mixed approach of powerful graphics, haptic feedbacks, and AI to accelerate surgery training. Reading time 5 minutes If you’ve spent any time paying ...

Osso VR, the VR surgical training platform, today announced it’s closed a $66 million Series C financing round, something the company says will be used to broaden its VR surgical offering and hire ...

Practice makes perfect, especially when it comes to life-saving procedures that deal with extreme edge cases like separating conjoined twins. Now a UK-Brazilian team have done just that, which is ...

As a psychologist and researcher, Erick Gallun of Portland, Ore., wanted to learn more about how he could use virtual reality in his work. That interest led him down a path that may have saved his ...

More evidence is mounting that virtual reality might relieve pain during surgery. MIT News reports that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researchers in Boston have published a study indicating ...

To help give surgeons a leg up in less-invasive spine surgery, NuVasive plans to launch a virtual reality training program that can be completed just about anywhere. Working with the orthopedic VR ...

It turns out that VR headsets can heighten gaming experiences, immerse people in museums and art galleries, and liven up the classroom, among other creative uses. Now, they could make surgery a bit ...

"It takes so much guessing work out of what you think you're going to find during surgery — because we already know exactly what's there and we can plan appropriately.” Manning Family Children’s ...