Virtual reality meets medicine

Virtual reality meets medicine

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Improvements in virtual reality may offer doctors a chance for advanced training in ways never before possible. Mary Spio is President and Founder of Next Galaxy. It focuses on developing consumer virtual reality technology. Next Galaxy recently partnered with Miami Children’s Hospital to work on this kind of virtual reality application. Mary joins us to discuss what this new technology could mean for the future of surgery.