Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR)
Radiation Therapy students see inside a patient
The VERT system is a Virtual Environment of the Radiation therapy Treatment room. It is a three dimensional view of the treatment machine, treatment room (with all the features you would find in an actual treatment room including emergency stop buttons), patient body shape, patient position, treatment/tumor volumes and other important internal body structures.
VERT has been used successfully with BCIT students since 2011. The program also uses VERT to demonstrate radiation therapy to grade 12 pre-health students.
Emergency Nursing students assess a seizing patient using mixed reality (MR) technology
Human patient simulators can be programmed to seize; however, the manikin’s seizures are very mild and look more like a case of the shivers or shakes. Specialty Nursing’s MR application allows learners to interact with a patient experiencing a range of simple to complex seizures.
Check out the Augmented Reality technology demonstration video [MP4]
Medical Radiography students become an x-ray beam using VR
“Be the Beam” project is a VR application where students experience a medical imaging environment and learn: radiation physics, medical imaging for two dimensional and three dimensional imaging, engineering of medical imaging equipment, x-ray production, photon energy, electron energy, x-ray image processing, computed and digital radiography, physics equations, medical imaging accessories, radiation protection and safety, and much more! This project won the Sim Innovator Award at the 2019 Sim Expo.
Online 3D Brain Anatomy