Gary Steinberg, Stanford University’s head of neurosurgery, has been operating on brains for more than three decades. Only in the past year has he been able to do something that he says gives him a significant advantage: preview the surgery and practice it. Donning a virtual-reality headset, the 64-year-old works through thickets of digital blood vessels in a precise computer simulation of a patient’s gray matter before he cuts into the real thing. ...
Although consumer products are unspectacular , virtual reality ( VR ) is being increasingly used in an array of ways to help train employees , often those in risky jobs . companies from manufacturing to construction are now using VR as a practical way of providing customised training . VR also has applications in medicine by allowing surgical operations to be previewed . Wal - Mart healthcare is keen to introduce VR training to all its 200 training centre and sees it as an important method of developing its healthcare staff .