Medicine Meets Virtual Reality

Virtual reality (VR) is usually described as an artificial environment, created with methods of computer graphics on high-performance rendering machines, where users wearing headmounted displays and data-gloves, or using other interfaces, navigate and interact with the scene or each other in (near-) real time. VR has become particularly popular for all kinds of simulations, including architectural and military, as well as games. In these applications, both the virtual scenes (e.g. buildings) and the possible types of interactions (e.g. movements) remain comperatively simple.