
Using technologies from the gaming industry to improve medicine
The Future of Everything
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Breast Cancer Surgery
A lot of this comes from the economies of scale of people who are playing games and doing virtual reality. So going back to the breast cancer, that means if I'm understanding you correctly, the main problem is they can't find the lump that they're supposed to be looking for. Well, what we've worked on initially is that the surgeon puts this technology on and they look at their patient. And it provides you volumetric 3D data. That data is processed into something that no longer looks like a bunch of slices, but instead looks like three dimensional models.
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