Houston Methodist to use VR for medical training

Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation and Training partnered with VR company FundamentalVR to build a new healthcare app for training, education and innovation. 

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The app, MITIEverse, transports clinicians into customizable showcase rooms, surgical simulations and lectures from the Houston Methodist faculty and collaborators, according to an Oct. 4 press release. 

The aim of the app is to provide clinicians with hands-on training. 

“This new app brings the hands-on education and training MITIE is known for to a new virtual audience,” said Stuart Corr, PhD, inventor of the MITIEverse and director of innovation systems engineering at Houston Methodist. “It could be a first step toward building out a medical metaverse.”

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