Advances in virtual reality are wide ranging

EDITOR—McCloy and Stone have reviewed virtual reality in surgery.1 Providing an updated and clear picture of a field that changes and advances continuously is hard, and we would like to point out some other things that virtual reality offers to surgery. Applications are likely to determine advances not only in surgical training but also in operative planning, operative strategy, and techniques, as well as in telesurgery. Fig 1. Automated 3D liver reconstruction Systems that allow the assessment of psychomotor skills hold great interest for surgical training. We believe, though, that training …