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The prostate gland in VR

The prostate gland in Virtual Reality

We set a challenge, to the development team here, to make the most realistic model of the endoscopic anatomy of the prostate and bladder possible, that we could use in a VR application and I wanted to give you a more detailed walk through, so here it is.

Benefits of full immersion in vr

VR is immersive

The level of immersion that you can create in VR is hugely valuable to creating a sense of place and context for training and education. Creating a realistic sense of place for clinical scenarios improves the learner experience and how seriously they engage with the training episode.  Imagine a real sense of peril in a clinical case scenario, or the realism of the response of a patient to an intervention. The possibilities are limitless.

VR why now

Why VR and why now?

Low-cost VR headsets are the hardware solution, to enable better access to training in a realistic and fun way. How could you use this technology to train your customers remotely, at a fraction of the cost of employing dedicated high cost simulator hardware?

what is xr

What is XR?

Extended Reality – the whizzy term for all things mixed, augmented and virtual reality is here – are you ready for them, do you know how you can use them?

Do you need a metaverse

Do you need a metaverse?

It’s a big question, and looking at the current punditry on this issue, the jury is split “it’s the next really big thing” to “it will never catch on”. We’re going to answer this question, over the next few weeks, one minute at a time.

Deliberately practice decision making

Deliberately practicing decision making

When your child learns to ride a bike, they might have the technical riding skills down pat, but you won’t let them cycle to school on their own, unless they can make a safe decision about where to cross the street. That in a nutshell is how important the decisions around a technical skill are. Serious Games can help make you better decision makers.

Experiencing Quality of Life Symptoms

Experiencing Quality of Life Symptoms

From pain to pooping, Quality of Life impacts of disease on individual patients can be severe. Unless Health Care Professionals have direct experience of these things themselves, they frequently under-estimate the life disturbance they cause – we can change that!

DoctorsPlayGames

Do doctors play games?

Doctors are gamers – from Wordle to Fortnite, there are game genres to appeal to all tastes and as fast adopters of new technologies, doctors are gaming!

Are simulators games

Simulators are games

I’ve played Dokter Bibber for way more time in my life than I used the masses of simulators that I have had access to, because the simulators were a dull task, and Dokter Bibber was fun. Serious Games allow you to inject the fun back into the deliberate practice of tasks.

GameBasedLearningMedTech

Game based learning for MedTech

Gaming is mainstream, and with a huge variety of game genres we can find the right style of game to achieve your learning objectives and appeal to your target audience, whatever the arena.