VR platform for clinical environment familiarization training
This technology turns real medical facilities into interactive virtual reality training environments by stitching together 360-degree photos taken at multiple points inside the space. When a student puts on a VR headset, they can stand at any of those camera positions and look around as if they were actually there. Two layers of interactive content sit on top of the images: markers that show where other camera positions are so students can navigate the space, and pop-up educational content attached directly to specific objects in the environment — a piece of equipment, a patient monitor, a procedure tray. The result is a self-guided, immersive clinical orientation tool that requires no 3D modeling or game-engine development expertise to produce.
What you could build
A SaaS platform for nursing schools, medical schools, and hospital education departments that lets instructors photograph any clinical space and publish it as an annotated VR walkthrough accessible on standard headsets or web browsers — purchased by healthcare education program directors and simulation center managers.
Who in Virginia should care
Virginia's dense concentration of academic medical centers (VCU Health, UVA Health, Inova) and military medical training infrastructure at Fort Belvoir and Bethesda-adjacent facilities would be natural early customers or pilot partners.
Readiness: Concept
Concept — described but not yet demonstrated. Lab validated — supported by experimental results in the patent. Prototype likely — the text describes a built, working embodiment.
Readiness is inferred from the patent text, not from a lab visit.
The record
- Inventors
- Jennifer S. Wayne, Cameron Moore, Wallace Santos Lages
- Filed
- Patent pending — filed July 3, 2024
- Status
- Application
- Publication number
- US20250014289A1
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