Virtual Reality Medical Field

Although this specific program will likely not become available to average consumers, the same foundations for the simulation will be available on the marketplace while being affordable at the same time. In time, applied use of virtual reality such as the Oculus Rift will become mainstream and accepted in everyday life not only due its entertainment value, but also due to its affordability for consumers everywhere. Thoughts of virtual reality often resemble fantastical scenarios reminiscent of scenes in movies with similar themes like Gamer, The Matrix, Total Recall, and Inception. After one delves into the VR technology in products such as the Oculus Rift, one will begin to believe, and he or she will brace themselves for the tidal wave that is the paradigm shift of virtual reality.

The fear of heights can sometimes leave people frozen in terror. There is large amount of evidence suggesting that virtual reality therapy has successfully helped alleviate conditions similar to PTSD. This is accomplished by slowly increasing the amount of stressors, as to not overload the patient with irrational fear. For example, with fear of heights, researchers can gradually increase the difficulty of the simulation, so that the height of the platform increases after every session. In a similar case study, 49 patients had volunteered to participate in a virtual reality treatment for their fear of flying. Results showed, “By the 6-month follow-up, 90% of treated participants had flown since completing treatment” (Anderson 2001). Effectiveness also hugely depends on plausibility and affordability. We need to consider if this treatment is convenient for

For their study, “47 undergraduate students at a Midwest university” were gathered through an online sign up process in which no demographics were collected in the study and the participants had the motivation of receiving class credit for their participation (556). Out of the 47, 2 participants were excluded from the final result due to problems with the procedure, leaving a total of 45. These individuals took part in a virtual reality simulation designed to help people overcome fear of heights. Each participant wore a specially designed set of goggles that allowed for the wearer to have a 360 degree view of the virtual environment and was given a hand-held controller to control their movements throughout the environment. The environment consisted of

In your life, have you ever thought about using virtual reality? Have you ever taken to time to actually look at and think about both sides of virtual reality? Well virtual reality, is good and many people doubt that because of all the cons. But there a lot of pros that defeat these cons. It won't only help you, but it can make you happier and proud. People like to believe in a lot of things, but not everyone sees both sides of everything, especially when it comes to virtual reality. Virtual reality, it develops people it guides people. It’s like being you and creating yourself in the form that you can feel best in. It can be used to do a lot of things but many people are blind to that and just see everything one sided. Virtual reality should be allowed because it’s helpful to struggling or disabled people, therefore virtual reality isn't a cancer to the world, it’s a solution.

Transcript from our interview with Dr. Pretorius, Orthopaedic Surgeon: He says he is not aware of any virtual reality training for orthopaedics. The traditional training for arthroscopic knee surgery was either on cadavers or they would do arthroscopies on public patients (while they were registrar's) with severe osteoarthritis - which means they get a bit of practice on a living patient, without the chance of doing any damage. He says that he thinks training in virtual reality would be a useful tool, but will not be as accurate as/good experience as working on cadavers or live patients - giving you more exposure to real life complications and individual anatomy of patients - Dr Willem Pretorius, Orthopaedic Surgeon

Medical Applications of virtual and augmented reality: Virtual reality is an interactive simulation that makes you feel like you are somewhere you are not. It is now starting to be used in the medical field. For patients that are in pain, virtual reality can be used to make it seem like they are in a different happier place. Studies show that it has the same effectiveness level as morphine, possibly even more effective. For therapists who help people with different fears, virtual reality can help conquer the fear. For example, a virtual reality for people suffering arachnophobia allows people to experience what it is like to have spiders surrounding them. Virtual reality can also be used for surgical training. Surgeons can practice surgery without the fear of hurting or injuring an actual patient. This is helpful because if they mess up, they do not have to deal with the consequences that come from surgical mistakes. Virtual reality is a very new and upcoming idea, and in the near future it has the potential to become much more common in a healthcare

authors showed that virtual reality (VR) is one of the best new technologies that can be applied

Technology always interests us. When something new comes out, like drones or the iPhone - everyone wants one. VR will be no different. Walking through school before the bell and seeing people (sadly) at restaurants and out with their family, all of them on their new iPhone 6s’. We can see this has already happened with other products, but although VR isn’t here yet and won’t be common for years to come, the craze has already

We submit here a proposal outlining new applications of virtual reality (VR) towards therapeutic treatments within healthcare. Specifically, we recommend that the Kaiser Medical Groups consider implementing new VR-based therapies within their hospitals in order to improve the quality of patient care and in some cases, to reduce the cost of treatments.

In an era where generations are becoming increasingly tech-savvy with children growing up on video games, and one in which patient safety is of foremost concern, the idea of incorporating virtual reality into medical education continues to be an extremely promising one. However, such simulators are expensive to add to the curriculum and there is a learning curve for adjusting to learning clinical and surgical skills in such a manner. Therefore, it is critical that every proposed tool be thoroughly evaluated and validated before any sort of implementation is put forth in order to confirm that these educational tools will be more effective than the current system. We compared the performance of more experienced residents and fellows

Sullivan, an experienced editor for the NY Times used a trial version of Oculus’s final product to conduct a survey on how other journalists would feel about the new Rift by Oculus. Sullivan’s article was relatively colloquial as it uses many conversation pieces throughout the article. The data presented mixed to create a strong case of mixed reaction and an indefinite future for the company Oculus. The article is very well put together incorporating many viewpoints into the article, it also raises the thought that just maybe virtual reality could turn out to be too much for the general public to handle. The data is also very strong as it comes from personnel associated with the New York

Originally it was to have the best computer for everyone, then it was turning cell phones into the smartphones which gave you more access to the internet and allowed people to stay in contact easier through applications, now it’s the idea of a virtual reality. This would change our way of interacting with computers and how we can perceive different scenarios. The use of oculus rift for example puts you within whatever setting you want, this could be beneficial to many things, for example, I feel it could help give you a real-time feel of potential situations when trying to determine how something happened, or the ability to practice surgery before actually doing it. With the surgery example, you have to become accustomed to many instruments and what they are used for. Instead of learning/practicing on live beings, the interactive-ness of virtual reality would allow you to observe the frames of an operation without conducting one, allowing you to better yourself within your area of

Once the technology had been developed to a point where it could actually be utilized, VR was often seen as more of a tool than a new method of entertainment. The technology was fine-tuned and then used in flight simulators during the 70s to train pilots before they got into a real plane. The technology then made its way to the entertainment industry during the video-game boom of the 80s. Since its inception, Virtual Reality technology has found a wide range of uses in very unpredictable ways. The military, the space program, medical students and even driving schools use virtual training environments that take place in a version of Virtual Reality.

VR systems support 3-dimensional graphics, wide angle of view, stereovision, and viewer-centered perspective. In many VR systems the participant is not seated and is free to walk about and gesture broadly. These features make a computer system which is closer to a workshop, an operating room, or a national park than it is to a desk in an office. This perspective allows freedom in the creation of human-computer interfaces that is not afforded by the current standard interfaces [4].

Furthermore, according to Shaojing Fan, Yongping Zhang, Jianbo Fan, Zhongkun He and Yu Chen (2010), virtual reality is an emerging technology with a variety of potential benefits for many aspects of education, medical treatment, and scientific research. One of advantages of Virtual Reality is people can immerse themselves in an environment that would generally be unavailable due to cost, safety or perception restriction. Research by Abulrub, Attridge and Williams (2011) suggested that a new generation of engineering students is entering higher education level with their own worth computing knowledge and skills. They also have high expectations that their institutes will introduce them to suitable technologies for their successful transformation into industry. Technological requirements encounter academic institutions to adopt appropriate and suitable strategies in order to meet all of educational demand. Hence, virtual reality is one of the best solutions as its solution and advancement in immersive and interactive technologies can give visible and noticeable effects on different style and learning. Moreover, virtual reality known as technology that is attractive to students.