April 14, 2016 will be marked with a white cross. On this day, spectators will be able to watch live on the Internet the first surgical operation filmed in 360 degrees and broadcast in virtual reality (RV).
Installed behind their computer screen, or equipped with a virtual reality headset (for the lucky ones), the public will be able to live in immersion, as if they were in the operating room, the surgeon’s intervention on an affected patient. colon cancer.
The protagonist of this new genre film will be Shafi Ahmed, specialist in colorectal surgery at the Royal London Hospital.
The curious who would like to attend this unusual spectacle will be able to have access to the operation retransmitted on Internet with a slight delay. The maneuver will be filmed using a camera placed above the operating table which will film at 360 degrees. Anyone, medical students or those in charge of surgery will be able to share Dr. Ahmed’s surgical experience. On the computer screen, it will be possible to change and choose the viewing angle of the video. Spectators equipped with a virtual reality device such as the Oculus Rift or Samsung Gear VR headset will be totally immersed in the setting of the operating room.
Ultimately, the London surgeon hopes to reiterate the virtual reality experience by allowing spectators to interact more using VR gloves which would allow them to “touch” and grasp a little more the virtual world.
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