Learn With Us
We are strong proponents of gathering and sharing useful knowledge, especially where it helps others. When it comes to the use of immersive technologies, and in particular the application of those technologies in healthcare settings, we should all benefit from this knowledge.
Decades of research and exploration have brought to light opportunities, challenges, catalysts and best practices we can use to fuel our passions and test our solutions. This page is dedicated as a resource to all of you, so that our collective future is designed by all of us, for all of us.
Thank you for your curiosity, and for making this page possible.
Research Hub
Our Learning Hub has long been the most utilized resource on our website and a constant source of inspiration for the industry. At over 400 peer reviewed papers, we have curated one of the largest collections of virtual and augmented reality research across healthcare settings.
Our Blog
We bring a unique perspective to the field given our diverse backgrounds and unique approach to solving learning problems across healthcare. Join us as we discuss those approaches and apply our deep knowledge of our respective crafts to help reinvent learning in healthcare.
Editorial
In this editorial, we discuss the promise of virtual reality (VR) as an effective education and training tool in health care. We review the neurobiology of learning and performance and show that VR broadly engages multiple learning and performance systems in the brain in synchrony. Published in Digital Medicine journal in April, 2020.
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
Albert Einstein
Resources
Below you will find a few of our favorite resources, research and questions shared with us in recent years. This is just a small glimpse of the available literature, but an important place to start or continue your learning journey.
Which guidelines do you follow to ensure the safe creation and use of VR in clinical settings?
How do you determine the frequency and modality of feedback and cues in a virtual environment?
Human Factors, n.
"The true science underlying simulation– the science that helps to guarantee the transfer of skills from the simulated to the real."
(Stone, in Philosophical Transactions)
VR As Persuasive Technology in Health Care:
"This heavily relies on the underlying assumption that presenting information through the attractive and interactive form of a game will naturally result in learning and knowledge retention, which will subsequently lead to behavior change. However, the reality is not that simple..."
(Chow, et al., in Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, 2017)