CAVEman, Virtual Human In The Virtual-Reality Room

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CAVEman, Virtual Human In The Virtual-Reality Room

Post by chandoo » Apr 03, 2008 Views: 2258

Using a so-called CAVEman to explore a patient's insides is the wave of the future, say University of Calgary medical researchers.

After years of development, a model of the human body now lives in what the university calls a Cave Automated Virtual Reality Environment, said Dr. Grant Gall, dean of the faculty of medicine.



This project is a major breakthrough," he said at yesterday's unveiling of their CAVEman, a project six years in the making.

"This is a tool that will be useful not only to researchers studying disease, but also to physicians exploring new pathways in surgical planning."

In the virtual-reality room, referred to as the "research holodeck," a human model floats in space, projected from three walls and the floor below.

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