PrecisionOS Launches Immersive VR Robotics Trainer

The world-first virtual reality (VR) platform allows doctors to practice realistic surgeries regardless of location

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Published: May 28, 2021

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PrecisionOS has recently released the world’s first fully interactive VR robotics training platform.

The Vancouver, Canada-based firm specialises in VR-based medical training solutions to save massive costs on robotic surgery education, with the latest using the Oculus Quest headset for modules.

The firm built the groundbreaking platform along with robots, active cameras, virtual patients, and software interfaces to build the world’s most immersive VR training simulation.

The programme can also train operating room staff simultaneously to reduce on-site education, giving doctors more time to work with patients at hospitals. Surgeons at remote locations can access and work jointly in the same virtual operating room via their headsets, the company explained.

PrecisionOS Founder, Chief Executive, and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Danny Goel MD, said:

“Not only is traditional robotics training a complex and costly endeavor, but published research has demonstrated that on-boarding and training times are a substantial barrier to robotics adoption with learning curves reaching up to 35 cases. This equates to months of on-boarding, which depending on your volume of surgical cases, may have direct implications to patient care”

Dr Goel added providing “high-quality education” was critical for the VR firm, and the new platform would address “a significant need in the robotics industry” while linking educators and trainees “in a convenient and cost-effective way.”

VR/AR Advances the Medical Industry

The announcement comes months after VR firms Brainlab and Magic Leap launched a Mixed Reality Viewer to transform physical spaces into virtual surgery environments, compete with 3D visualisations.

Such technologies would significantly lower surgical risks by planning on the Mixed Reality Viewer, limiting medical complications at hospitals as well as reducing surgery and anaesthesia times, Viet Braun, Medical Doctor and Professor at the Jung-Stilling Hospital in Siegen, Germany said at the time.

XR Today reported in November last year surgeons had performed the world’s first VR operation in London to remove cancerous tissue from a patient as medical students watched a livestream of the event.

Surgeons at St Bartholomew Hospital also worked jointly on a patient via their Microsoft HoloLens headsets to operate on a patient.

A PrecisionOS report, citing figures from Goldman Sachs, found AR/VR technologies were set to impact roughly 8 million physicians and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) globally, valued at $16 billion.

 

 

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