| | May 20219UTLOOKHealthcare Tech Virtual Reality Applications for Virtual Reality Applications for Video Gaming industry. Some experts believe that the use of Virtual Reality will increase by 60% over the next two years (Yeti, 2016)Development of VR in SurgeryVirtual Reality industry has made way to the healthcare industry. One of the areas that are growing is Surgery. The rising cost of healthcare coupled with services provided has sent experts reeling to find more effective and efficient ways to apply new technologies that leads to more accurate diagnosis, which in turn presents quicker recovery times while generating revenue. The development of surgical procedures are still in the early stages as a whole but is steadily increasing. Currently, the major areas benefiting from Virtual Reality procedures are Cardiac, Colorectal, General, Gynecological, Head & Neck, Thoracic and Urological with the use in other areas constantly being developed. Usually, with these procedures, the use of total immersive environments are used to perform most or all of the procedure. Total immersion allows the user to be placed in a virtual environment. The DaVinci Surgical unit by Intuitive Surgical is the system of choice. The DaVinci unit allows the viewing of a 3D virtual environment externally while the manipulation of surgical tools internally. The surgical instruments are called Rods. While the practitioner is viewing from a console that produces a high-resolution Virtual environment of the internal patient, the surgical instruments are controlled by loops around the fingers of the practitioner. The surgical instruments (which are internal) have a 360-degree rotation degree of movement (DOM). This system requires surgeons to have a tremendous amount of simulated training some of the leaders in this new technology estimate two hundred procedures for a surgeon to become proficient. The training on the DaVinci is not time or cost efficient for surgeons, therefore, simulator such as Mimic dv-Trainer or the Simbionix RobotX Mentor were created to reduce training cost while still providing a real-life feel for the training. The DaVinci is one of the most widely used units to date. Another area is in the wearable technologies. Head Based Devices (HBD) such as Oculus, GearVR, and Google Glass. Head Based Devices are being used to integrate with technologies like cellphones to provide physicians real-time statistics like vital signs of a patient in different areas. A major medical equipment company performed a pilot study where a surgeon could see the vital signs of a patient in ICU through Google glass. Another use of Virtual Reality in Surgery is in the area of using VR for Simulated training for Surgery. In a study performed by Kahn and associates, the researcher used a Simulation-based training for Prostate Surgery. The objective of this study was to identify and review current simulators for prostate surgery and to explore the evidence supporting their validity for training purposes. These methods that were used to carry out this research were not only prostate surgery using robotics but Virtual Reality was used to create an artificial environment for training surgeons to perform prostate surgery. VR simulators have added benefits for usability and provide statistical feedback through an objective performance evaluation report, whereas physical simulators lack a quantifiable inherent means of measuring performance. HTSurgerySurgery
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