Investigating the utility of VR for spatial understanding in surgical planning: evaluation of head-mounted to desktop display.

ABSTRACT: Recent technological advances have made Virtual Reality (VR) attractive in both research and real world applications such as training, rehabilitation, and gaming. Although these other fields benefited from VR technology, it remains unclear whether VR contributes to better spatial understanding and training in the context of surgical planning. In this study, we evaluated the use of VR by comparing the recall of spatial information in two learning conditions: a head-mounted display (HMD) and a desktop screen (DT). Specifically, we explored (a) a scene understanding and then (b) a direction estimation task using two 3D models (i.e., a liver and a pyramid). In the scene understanding task, participants had to navigate the rendered the 3D models by means of rotation, zoom and transparency in or

SUBMITTER: Hattab G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8241863 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature