virtual reality

The next generation of healthcare and engineering professionals are receiving training using the latest immersive technology, following a £3 million investment at Coventry University. The university’s School of Health and Care has opened its VR Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) suite, while its College of Engineering Environment and Science has installed a Powerwall. Funded from […]

According to Intelligent Ultrasound, the answer is yes. Intelligent Ultrasound is a leading ‘classroom to clinic’ ultrasound company, specialising in providing real-time, virtual reality simulation for the ultrasound training market (‘classroom’) and artificial intelligence-based clinical image analysis software tools for the diagnostic medical ultrasound market (‘clinic’). The company’s latest innovation, NeedleTrainer, combines both these technologies of […]

Virtual reality headsets and video gaming graphics are being used by Bangor University to train the next generation of x-ray radiographers in north Wales. The Wrexham campus has a new computer programme that enables students to use VR to learn how to take x-rays. “Like all radiography courses we are limited by the amount of […]

A report that could help improve how immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are used in healthcare education and training has been published by the Centre for Immersive Technologies at University of Leeds, with input from a range of academics, technologists and health professionals. Immersive technologies in healthcare training and […]