Hospital and Medical News

September 30, 2015

Virtual reality stretching beyond video games
San Francisco (AFP) Sept 24, 2015
Virtual reality is a dream of video game lovers, but it is poised to blast far beyond play to education, medicine, architecture and other learning arenas. Thanks to head gear from Facebook-owned Oculus VR (Rift) and Sony's "Project Morpheus" - now renamed PlayStation VR - virtual reality is expected to hit the mainstream next year. Some developers, however, are intent on putting virtual reality headsets to more productive uses than gaming. Andrew Tschesnok, founder and chief executive of ... read more

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