Americans are already worried about how the health of their medical profession will be affected by COVID-19. But, doctors now reportedly use virtual reality (VR), and augment reality (AR) more often to teach their staff. Not only that, but scandal-ridden Meta, the name of Facebook’s new parent company, and Microsoft are also reportedly building some of the VR/AR technology being used.
The medical technology company Abbott says that VR/AR has many applications for training and proctoring. Chris McGlone (director of training and education at Abbott’s U.S. cardiovascular business) stated that nearly 6,000 physicians were trained virtually, with 60,000 technical and nursing staff also receiving training online over the course of five years. McGlone stated that most of the virtually trained doctors were trained prior to the COVID-19 epidemic.
One tool used by McGlone and his team is Meta’s Oculus, including potentially the Oculus Quest VR headset in the future, according to Abbott. McGlone said he and his team are also using Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 headset. Meta and Microsoft used technology to control stories and/or suppress speech. It raises serious questions about their VR/AR technology’s impact on the medical industry.
Abbott said that in certain cases VR/AR can allow doctors to act as proctors for tests being conducted elsewhere. Other medical professionals can watch 360-degree videos of procedures on VR headsets, or walk around a “virtual cath lab.” The latter experience allows a medical professional to make changes to his “environment” using a joystick and “practice making clinical decisions in this virtual environment,” as McGlone reportedly put it.
This sounds like an incredible innovation, as it allows global sharing of knowledge and offers new methods of training. However, Meta and Microsoft have been building some of this technology. Meta (Facebook) has heavily suppressed COVID-19 data that could contradict real-time establishment narratives. Americans can be assured that all medical objectsivity will apply to the use and construction of medical VR/AR.
Abbott wrote that VR and AR are here to stay in the medical field, stating, “nothing on the horizon — digital or otherwise — shows any sign of changing this direction.” Only the future can reveal exactly how virtual reality will shape and change the medical field.
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