The graphics demands of virtual medicine

Abstract Any technology for virtual reality limits what can be presented to the user. Games are designed within such limits, but medicine has categorical requirements, more easily met in “reach-in” than in “immersive” VR. We discuss the effects of the needs of medicine on interface and graphics technology, and the achievement of precise, dextrous control for investigation and editing of 3-D medical data.

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