Current Virtual Reality News Today

Virtual Reality Helmet Designed For Deep Space Surgery
pigrabbitbear writes in with a link about a virtual reality helmet designed to help people deal with medical emergencies in space. "Humans are pretty fragile. A bad break in your hip can mean surgery and months of rehab. That's pretty bad, but what if you fall and break your hip on the Moon, or even Mars? You'd be hundreds of thousands or millions of miles from a fully stocked hospital and a ...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:35:51 -0800

Virtual Reality Contact Lenses Could Be Available by 2014
Contact lenses that help enhance normal vision with megapixel 3D panoramic images are being designed by scientists using military funding.

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:22:06 -0800

Sensable Customers Showcase Touch-Enabled Surgical, Medical Simulation and Robotics Innovations at MMVR Conference
Sensable’s customers will feature prominently at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference in Newport Beach, California beginning tomorrow, where they will showcase innovative haptically-enabled surgical, medical simulation, rehabilitation and robotic applications developed using Sensable’s Phantom® force feedback haptic devices.

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:00:00 -0800

Augmented reality promises astronauts instant medical knowhow
The Computer Assisted Medical Diagnosis and Surgery System, CAMDASS, is a wearable augmented reality prototype. Augmented reality merges actual and virtual reality by precisely combining computer-generated graphics with the wearer's view.

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:08:07 -0800

3-D visors tested for use in space surgery
Astronauts stuck on a space station or mission to Mars must treat illnesses or do surgery with their own hands, but not necessarily without some virtual help. A 3D visor display being tested on Earth could guide astronauts with virtual reality graphics overlaid on top of the real world.

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:05:27 -0800