Hamacher Alaric, Kim Su Jin, Cho Sung Tae, Pardeshi Sunil, Lee Seung Hyun, Eun Sung-Jong, Whangbo Taeg Keun
Department of Computer Science, Gachon University, Seongnam, Korea.
Department of Urology, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Int Neurourol J. 2016 Sep;20(3):172-181. doi: 10.5213/inj.1632714.357. Epub 2016 Sep 23.
Recent developments in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality have introduced a considerable number of new devices into the consumer market. This momentum is also affecting the medical and health care sector. Although many of the theoretical and practical foundations of virtual reality (VR) were already researched and experienced in the 1980s, the vastly improved features of displays, sensors, interactivity, and computing power currently available in devices offer a new field of applications to the medical sector and also to urology in particular. The purpose of this review article is to review the extent to which VR technology has already influenced certain aspects of medicine, the applications that are currently in use in urology, and the future development trends that could be expected.
虚拟现实、增强现实和混合现实的最新发展已将大量新设备引入消费市场。这一势头也正在影响医疗保健领域。尽管虚拟现实（VR）的许多理论和实践基础在20世纪80年代就已得到研究和实践，但目前设备中显示器、传感器、交互性和计算能力的大幅改进为医疗领域，尤其是泌尿外科提供了一个新的应用领域。这篇综述文章的目的是回顾VR技术在多大程度上已经影响了医学的某些方面、目前在泌尿外科中的应用以及预期的未来发展趋势。
