Chapter 16. Health and Medicine
From education, training, and procedure rehearsal, to enhancing a surgeon’s situational awareness, to tools that aid in recovery and rehabilitation, a growing number of applications of virtual and augmented reality–enabling technologies within the physical and mental health fields are showing demonstrable results, as well as significant potential for future development. In this chapter we explore a number of these applications, highlighting the specific problems they solve, their major enabling technology components, and their strengths compared to solutions traditionally employed.
Advancing the Field of Medicine
The application of virtual and augmented reality within the physical and mental health fields is having ...
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