Extended reality (XR) technologies like augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) are transformative tools that are changing the way students access key information and skills in medical programs. Unlike lecture, books or video, XR allows students to master material through interactivity and deeper exploration.
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How Extended Realities Accommodate Different Learning Styles
By GIGXR on Aug 10, 2020 11:08:46 AM
Topics: Extended Reality Healthcare
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Mixed Reality in Education and Training
By GIGXR on Jul 21, 2020 3:21:19 PM
Today's educators are constantly looking for new interactive tools to engage students. Virtual Reality (VR) has been recognized for some time as a key technology that can bring the educational experience to the next level, while Extended Reality (XR), which incorporates VR and Augmented Reality (AR), has become the new cutting edge of learning.
Topics: Virtual Reality Extended Reality Mixed Reality
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Patient Simulations Improving Nursing Students' Clinical Experiences
By GIGXR on Jul 15, 2020 7:43:04 AM
Healthcare students are better prepared for clinical situations when they experience realistic patient scenarios. Leading institutions like Otago Polytechnic School of Nursing are turning to immersive technologies to provide these experiences to their students. Otago was an early adopter of HoloPatient, a mixed-reality app that utilizes Microsoft's HoloLens 2.
Topics: Case Study
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Haptics & Advanced Sensory Perception In Extended Realities
By GIGXR on Jul 7, 2020 9:28:14 AM
Until recently, the focus of Extended Reality (XR) technologies, which encompasses Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality, has been to provide simulated audiovisual experiences in a physical space. And while the industry is constantly looking to improve how we see and hear in the XR world, there are new technologies, such as haptics, that are bringing the sense of touch into the virtual space as well.
Topics: Virtual Reality Extended Reality
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Free Simulation App Prepares Healthcare Workers to Treat COVID-19 Patients
By GIGXR on Jun 26, 2020 3:11:10 PM
As medical workers continue to care for Coronavirus patients around the globe, uncertainties still surround many aspects of the illness. Information about rates of contagiousness and how best to care for patients is being updated and changing by the day, leaving many healthcare workers grappling for how they can best look after patients and keep themselves and co-workers safe at the same rate.
Topics: GIGXR Company News
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Introducing the GIGXR Immersive Learning System
By GIGXR on Jun 11, 2020 8:47:30 AM
As undergraduate and graduate students sit in limbo, universities around the world are contemplating what the upcoming Fall 2020 school year will look like. The Coronavirus pandemic has changed every aspect of work and life — and universities, uniquely, must manage risk in both classrooms and on-campus housing situations.
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Immersive Technology in Healthcare Training Ebook
By GIGXR on May 25, 2020 6:00:00 AM
In our E-book: Immersive Technologies in Healthcare Training, GIGXR explores the expansion of Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Realities in the healthcare industry. We look at the current state and development of these Extended Realities (XR) and how learning and teaching can be enhanced with these resources.
Topics: VR Virtual Reality Extended Reality
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A Salute To Healthcare Workers On International Nurses Day
By GIGXR on May 12, 2020 6:15:00 AM
Topics: Virtual Reality Extended Reality
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Business Cases Proving Extended Reality Training ROI
By GIGXR on Apr 21, 2020 6:15:00 AM
Extended reality (XR) solutions provide unique immersive experiences that allow staff and students to engage and collaborate better, and learn at a pace that matches their learning styles. These technologies can aid learning and training at reduced costs and with positive ROI.
Topics: Extended Reality Mixed Reality
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Our Commitment To Health And Innovation
By David King Lassman on Apr 8, 2020 2:15:00 PM
Through these extraordinary and unprecedented times in which we find ourselves, I find myself marveling at the power of the human spirit and our ability to adapt. As an Englishman abroad, I can be forgiven for once believing that it was a quintessentially British trait to keep calm and carry on in the face of adversity. I stand corrected. Clearly, when the going gets tough, we take a collective breath, keep calm and carry on.