Medicine meets virtual reality :: Nextmed /

Since the debut of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) conference in 1992, MMVR has served as a forum for researchers harnessing IT advances for the benefit of patient diagnosis and care, medical education and procedural training. At MMVR, virtual reality becomes a theatre for medicine, where...

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Körperschaft: Medicine Meets Virtual Reality
Weitere Verfasser: Westwood, James D.
Format: Elektronisch Tagungsbericht E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam : Ios Press, 2011.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in health technology and informatics ; v. 163.
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Zusammenfassung:Since the debut of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) conference in 1992, MMVR has served as a forum for researchers harnessing IT advances for the benefit of patient diagnosis and care, medical education and procedural training. At MMVR, virtual reality becomes a theatre for medicine, where multiple senses are engaged - sight, sound and touch - and language and image fuse. Precisely because this theatre is unreal, it is a valuable tool: the risks of experimentation and failure are gone, while the opportunity to understand remains. Improvement of this tool, through steady technological.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (769 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9781607507062
1607507064
ISSN:0926-9630 ;