Fundamental VR

Main article: Virtual reality in medicine

2020

Fundamental VR is a new word in training surgeons. By 2020, there was a revolution in the training of medical personnel. New development - the Fundamental VR program made it possible to carry out complex operations in virtual reality mode without leaving the classroom.

The simulator can be used both for teaching and for evaluating students (the application analyzes the correctness of their actions). And modeling requires a minimum of equipment, which makes development cheap and affordable for use.

2017: UK performed open brain surgery and filmed it in virtual reality

In September 2017, it became known that a team of neurosurgeons from London performed an operation on the patient's open brain, recording the entire process on a camera with the effect of immersion in virtual reality. It is reported by Mashable^[1][2].

As the newspaper notes, two cameras were installed in the operating room: one was placed on the wall of the office, it worked in 360-degree panoramic shooting, and the other was fixed on the doctor's forehead so that the process was recorded from the first person. Then the video was edited and cut, leaving only the main stages of the operational process in the final five-minute video.

The video begins with a description of the upcoming surgery and a short story about the patient and his illness. An aneurysm was found in one of the man's brain vessels, which could lead to a fatal hemorrhage at any time. In order to place a clamp on the vessel, which localizes and "removes" a dangerous formation from the circulatory system, doctors were forced to perform surgery on the open brain.

"Recording the full procedure in VR allows us to begin the process of recreating the operation in a VR simulation, in which surgeons will be able to practice the key steps of the procedure in a secure virtual operating room and actually feel the textures of different tissue types with our hands using our FeelReal VR solution," said Fundamental VR founder Chris Scattergood.

Each stage of the operation and the actions of surgeons on the video are commented on by a voice-over consultant. As the producer of the video noted, such videos can help future doctors and students when they begin to conduct training operations in virtual reality.

The video is part of the Brainbook educational platform, which, through social media, helps specialists from all over the world get up-to-date information in the field of neurosurgery and the treatment of brain diseases.

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