Technology used for Hollywood movies and virtual-reality games is now being used in a new way that could potentially save lives. A local tech company is introducing virtual reality into the operating room.
“This is our virtual operating room,” said Jeremy Jarrett, executive vice president of Kinetic Vision in Evendale, describing a space in the company’s complex set aside for simulating an operating room.
The physical room itself is a mostly blank canvas. Everything comes to life on a large television monitor.
“It uses two really great technologies: motion capture and virtual reality combined,” Jarrett said. Engineers at Kinetic Vision spent about two months developing the content, code and the technology to create the virtual environment that researchers, doctors and medical device developers can use when a real operating room isn’t readily available.
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