In the television serial The Good Doctor, there's an interesting scene, where surgical residents practice surgery on body part models connected to simulators-a wrong move and the computer beeps an alarm. This cannot be completely attributed to the screenwriter's imagination-it is a scene that is actually being played out in hospitals and medical colleges in the developed world, where doctors use cutting edge technology not just as diagnostic aids but also in learning and training. New age tech offers tremendous potential to strengthen healthcare systems and no better example can be found than AR-VR-Augmented and Virtual reality. AR-VR are technologies that use a wearable headset to provide an immersive experience where the user can interact with virtual objects. The difference between the two is that VR takes the user into a full computer-generated virtual environment, whereas AR augments the real world scene by overlaying virtual objects. Together they form the world of Mixed Reality (called MR or, sometimes, XR).
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