Live Operation To Be Broadcast In Virtual Reality (VR)

Virtual Reality Meets the Operating Room: Live Operation to be Broadcast Next Month

Ed Oswald | March 25, 2016

If you’ve wanted the chance to watch an operation as though you were in the operating room itself, on April 14 you’ll get the opportunity. Doctors at The Royal London Hospital, in partnership with virtual reality company Medical Realities and live-streaming service Matavision, will perform the first operation to allow viewers to participate using virtual reality.
The patient is a man in his 70’s who is suffering from colon cancer. He is said to be “excited” about participating in the groundbreaking broadcast.

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<more at http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/google-cardboard-virtual-reality-operation/; related links and articles: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/25/uk-cancer-surgery-live-streamed-virtual-reality (UK cancer surgery to be live-streamed via virtual reality technology. Surgeon Shafi Ahmed will carry out procedure for viewers to watch using mobile phone and VR headset. March 25, 2016) and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/25/british-patient-to-undergo-worlds-first-virtual-reality-cancer-o/ (British patient to undergo world's first virtual reality cancer operation. March 25, 2016)>