This Tokyo Hospital is Livestreaming Surgeries in Virtual Reality
“Especially in the current situation, we believe that VR live streaming is very useful because you can share an immersive experience while avoiding human contact,” Naotaka Fujii, CEO of the VR company Hacosco that set up the system, wrote in a blog by the virtual reality camera manufacturer Insta360.
One drawback of the use of VR camera during surgeries is that students won’t get a hands-on perspective as they would if they were in the same surgical theatre with the rest of the surgeons. Another is that surgeons would also need to switch between various reference points for the visuals to be clear enough.
This doesn’t mean the virtual reality camera doesn’t provide a better view while livestreaming surgeries. It looks as if students were peering over the shoulders of a surgeon or watching from the glass window outside the surgical theatre.
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