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Virtual Reality, or “VR,” is an interactive three-dimensional world where objects have a sense of spatial presence — and it’s changing the way frontline clinicians learn and train.

Maternal mortality rates have always been a global challenge, but recently, they’ve disproportionately impacted people of color.

While developing VR applications itself is unique, developing them for healthcare professionals is a totally different beast. In this blog post, I'll share some of the unique challenges my team and I encountered while developing VR for healthcare and how we've overcome them.

You’ve likely heard the term “virtual reality” thrown around in recent years, especially in relation to massive tech conglomerates like Meta or Unity. But what applications does VR have beyond entertainment?

Health systems are increasingly using virtual reality to make medical training more efficient and cost effective. “Virtual reality is a three-dimensional interactive experience, which means it is a better way to train than just looking at a cadaver and it’s less expensive too,” said Dr. Walter Greenleaf, the virtual reality/augmented reality expert at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab.

After working for fifteen years in the engineering sector, I realized that all of my hard work became nothing more than a dusty stack of CD-ROMs on a government official’s bookshelf.