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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

The consumer electronics companies like Apple and Samsung and to some extent Google and Microsoft, along with companies like Amazon, are jumping nto healthcare. But if we can augment the pain medication and reduce the need for it by using virtual environments as a gating distraction from the pain, then all the better.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford's Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

The consumer electronics companies like Apple and Samsung and to some extent Google and Microsoft, along with companies like Amazon, are jumping nto healthcare. But if we can augment the pain medication and reduce the need for it by using virtual environments as a gating distraction from the pain, then all the better.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

The consumer electronics companies like Apple and Samsung and to some extent Google and Microsoft, along with companies like Amazon, are jumping nto healthcare. But if we can augment the pain medication and reduce the need for it by using virtual environments as a gating distraction from the pain, then all the better.