Healthcare institutions have been using virtual reality (VR) for more than 30 years. Within this period, the medical industry has managed to see numerous benefits of this VR technology.

How is virtual reality used in medicine?

In 2016, people could watch an online streaming operation for the first time. The 360-degree video allowed students and any curious people to see how an experienced surgeon was removing a cancer tumor.

Two large screens in the operating room were showing a view from the camera inside the patient. This camera rather looked like an extraordinary knitting needle.

On the medical table, you could see some strange scissors that could terrify even the bravest people.

The lights were dimmed except a spotlight, and, using a special medical tool called harmonic scalpel, Shafi Ahmed, the surgeon, began to remove a tumor.

He made an incision and then pronounced “Scissors” with the moveless countenance. After pulling out some pink mass, he dropped it into a bowl. The tumor was finally removed.