06/12/2019
True 3D Visualization Leads to New Reality for Surgery
A new era has begun in head-mounted display (HMDs) technology for augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) fueled by giants such as Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. With this mega-trend, researchers Karl West, Director, MDS and Jeffrey Yanof, PhD, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Lerner Research Institute, recognized that this can help address unmet needs in minimally-invasive surgical visualization, not just gaming and education applications.