VR Healthcare
The Metaverse Saved My Life, Now I’m Using it to Save Others
I’ve spent over 10,000 hours in ‘the metaverse’—or at least the proto-metaverse—virtual worlds inhabited by real people represented as avatars. The experiences and relationships I had there saved me from a dark place and set me on a mission...
Osso VR Raises $27M Series B to Expand Its VR Surgical Training Platform
Osso VR, the creators behind the immersive surgical platform, today announced its secured $27 million in Series B financing.
The funding round was led by GSR Ventures, with participation from Signalfire, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, OCA Ventures, Scrum Ventures, Leslie Ventures,...
AppliedVR Secures $29M Funding to Pursue FDA Approval for VR Pain Management Tech
AppliedVR, a virtual reality pain management startup, today announced it has secured $29 million in funding, something it aims to use in pursuit of FDA approval for its cognitive behavioral therapy-based pain management tech.
The Series A financing round includes F-Prime...
Precision OS Secures $2.3M Series A to Further VR Orthopedic Surgical Software
Precision OS, a Vancouver-based company creating VR surgery simulation software, announced that it has secured $2.3 million in Series A financing. The funding round was led by Davos, Switzerland-based AO Invest, and includes other undisclosed investors.
Precision OS builds VR software that...
FundamentalVR Partners with Mayo Clinic to Develop VR Surgical Simulations, Raises $1.4M Financing
FundamentalVR, the training and data analysis technology platform, today announced a three-year deal to jointly develop surgical VR simulation and education products with Mayo Clinic, the world-renowned academic medical center. FundamentalVR has also raised an additional $1.4 million in financing...
VR-based Vision Therapy ‘Vivid Vision’ Expands into Europe with CE Mark, Asia Next
VR-based vision therapy company Vivid Vision announced today that it has secured the EU's regulatory CE Mark, which certifies that the product conforms to the region's relevant health, safety, and environmental protection standards. Following the certification, the company is...
Eye Doctors Can Now Prescribe VR Lazy-eye Treatment for Home Use
Vivid Vision offers a virtual reality based treatment for lazy eye disorders. Optometrists have been able to use the company's treatment in their practice since 2015; this week Vivid Vision announced a new offering for the hardware/software-based eye-treatment that...
Samsung is Developing VR Tools to Help Diagnose Mental Health
Samsung Electronics has recently signed a partnership with Korean VR studio FNI and Gangnam Severance Hospital, one of South Korea's largest hospitals, to develop VR-based mental health diagnosis programs for Samsung Gear VR.
The goal, a report by ZDNet maintains, is to eventually commercialize the...
‘Bioflight VR’ for Medical Training, Patient Behavior Modification, & Diagnosis
The design team behind Bioflight VR has worked on television shows such as CSI and ER, and they've been able to translate their VFX visualization skills into a virtual reality medical education venture. Their original plans were to use...
PTSD Exposure Therapy in VR: Importance of Storytelling & Emotional Presence in Healing Trauma
Dr. Skip Rizzo heads the Medical VR Research Group at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies, which has been exploring how to use VR for psychological treatments, cognitive assessment, motor rehabilitation therapy, as well as interactions with virtual humans. He's...
VR-based Treatment for Vision Disorders Shows Positive Results in Peer-reviewed Study
Vivid Vision offers a virtual reality based treatment for lazy eye disorders. A new study published in the peer-reviewed BioMed Journal of Ophthalmology finds positive preliminary results which "indicate the potential for a new treatment for adulthood amblyopia."
Founded by...
Experimental VR Alzheimer’s Therapy App Made Just Hours After Plea by Child of Afflicted Father
After a recent bout of news articles detailing an experimental Alzheimer's Disease therapy that has showed promising results in mice, the child of an afflicted father made a plea to the VR community to create a VR app which...
Managing Pain & Anxiety in Hospitals with AppliedVR
There's been more than 30 years of research into the medical applications of virtual reality, but it's not until the recent consumer VR revolution that the technology has been cost-effective enough to use. The research shows that the combination...
Virtual Therapy for Stroke Neurorehabilitation & Skill Relearning
Larry Hodges is a professor of human computer interaction at Clemson University, and he was one of the co-chairs of the very first IEEE VR academic in 1999. Hodges also co-founded a start-up named Recover, which originated from a...
Social Presence & Training Social Dynamics with Virtual Humans
Team training scenarios are often difficult due to the logistics involved with coordinating many different people's schedules. One solution has been to use virtual humans as stand-ins for actual humans in team training scenarios where the conversation is mediated...
