"VR+Medical" is already part of the universities and organizations are doing things, and the main direction of the application can be divided into virtual surgery training, strengthen clinical diagnosis, telemedicine, mental illness treatment of four major categories.
Virtual surgical training: virtual surgical training can be said to be the current "VR + medical" application prospects are more clear one. The key issue in the training of doctors is practical learning, clinical learning conditions are limited, and the emergence of VR provides a solution. For example, Nicklaus Children's Hospital has teamed up with Next Galaxy Corp, a VR/AR company, to produce software designed specifically for hospital surgeries. The technology centers on virtual reality medical teaching software that guides users through the steps of Foley catheter placement, cardiac resuscitation and wound care.
Reinforcement of clinical diagnosis: AR and clinical diagnosis, but also "VR + medical" is very close to the direction of the commercial market. Previously, there is news that cardiologists with the help of Google Glass unclogged a 49-year-old male patient blocked the right coronary artery. Coronary artery imaging (CTA) and three-dimensional data presented on the display of Google Glass, according to these images, the doctor succeeded in channeling blood to the artery. Domestic also has a team in the research through AR technology, the doctor later do diagnosis is not a flat two-dimensional film, but transformed into a three-dimensional dynamic image, so that the doctor from any angle, free to observe the lesion structure.
Telemedicine: Telesurgery is an important part of telemedicine. During surgery, the surgeon operates in a virtual patient environment, controlling the movements of a robot that operates on an actual patient at a distance. Currently, experts at the Medical College of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology have collaborated to develop robots that can perform remote eye surgery. These robots are under the control of ophthalmologists with extensive experience and perform eye surgery more safely without the need for the doctor to be physically present.
Treatment of mental illness: this piece is placed in the last say mainly foreign countries attach great importance to the prospects of the market for the treatment of mental illness, but there is still a long way to go domestically. Currently in foreign countries, VR is used to treat veterans' PTSD, phantom limb pain of the disabled, children's ADHD, autism, cognitive dysfunction, etc., and even for the improvement of agoraphobia, claustrophobia, and phobia of airplanes are effective. The key to this piece lies mainly in the design of the scene content and the strength of immersion.