Research Overview

The current practice of medical education and methods of performing surgery and therapy suffer from limitations such as scarcity of subjects to practice on, suboptimal surgical precision, and therapy-related issues including medication misuse and ineffectiveness of the drugs to treat the conditions. Moreover, the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has added to the woes been faced by these application areas , which has necessitated the use of AR and VR-enabled devices that can help in improving the anatomical understanding, enhance surgical precision and offer new therapy options for effectively managing the medical conditions in the patients.

This GO-TE highlights the AR and VR-related innovations in areas such as medical education, surgical planning, surgery guidance and therapies for conditions including mental health and chronic pain.The scope of this GO-TE is global. This GO-TE provides an overview of AR and VR, and the drivers and challenges impacting their adoption.