Here are five notes:
1. Virtual reality is an optimal tool for preventative healthcare by making patients more likely to change behaviors through “experiencing” their future.
2. A single two- to five-minute scenario is approximately $150,000.
3. Next Galaxy is working to lower costs and provide technology to the masses. Google Cardboard, a viewer that folds around a smartphone, only costs $30.00.
4. The company has worked with Miami Children’s Health Systems to devise a virtual reality CPR course to train healthcare professionals and others.
5. Virtual technologies could be utilized to provide patients with pre-surgery instructions by allowing them to “experience” the procedure beforehand, thus resulting in fewer malpractice lawsuits citing patient misunderstandings.
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