FundamentalVR Enhances Surgical Realism

FundamentalVR have unveiled further advancements on the Fundamental Surgery platform to provide a new level of realism. Leveraging full force feedback kinesthetic haptics, high-fidelity graphics and 3D spatial technology, the new soft tissue capabilities allow surgeons to manipulate and feel the texture of anatomy as if they were in the operating room.

The enhanced soft tissue capabilities are part of the company’s five-year technology and clinical journey that has seen its Haptic R&D team work closely with surgeons and educator experts from around the world, drawing from leading universities as well as spatial technology and medical specialists such as Dr. David Farley at the Mayo Clinic.

The impact of the advanced tissue capabilities are not just skin deep. Its development allows FundamentalVR to deliver enhanced and unparalleled solutions for current simulations in areas such as spine, orthopedic and ophthalmology as well as new capabilities in soft tissue surgery, interventional and many more.

"With the addition of advanced soft tissue sensation capabilities, users are able to make independent decisions about approach and patient interaction and have full high-fidelity control, feeling and vision as they make that interaction,” said Richard Vincent, co-founder and CEO of FundamentalVR. “We have brought a new level of realism to medical education to an extent that the need for surgeons to practice in wet labs, on cadavers or patients could be eliminated within just a few years.”

FundamentalVR simulations are delivered through its Fundamental Surgery platform that allows users to experience the same sights, sounds, feelings and sensations they would in a real operating room. It combines Haptic virtual reality technology and analytics of previously unmeasurable data points to advanced surgical skills allowing precision techniques to be acquired.