ImmersiveTouch: Improved Surgical Planning and Training through VR

Traditionally, surgical training and pre-operative planning have been lacking in effectiveness and have consistently been prone to a bevy of risks. The advent of virtual reality (VR), however, heralds a new era of greater possibilities in surgical care. Founded by VR haptics innovator Dr. Prashant Banerjee, Ph.D and Chairman, ImmersiveTouch has been spearheading VR innovation in surgical planning and training since 2005. The company has developed a patented haptic surgical simulator technology that leverages patient-specific CT and MRI scans to create a realistic and risk-free VR environment from which surgeons and medical students can plan and practice surgery more efficiently. Bringing immersive VR experiences to surgical planning and patient-specific surgical simulation and rehearsal, ImmersiveTouch improves care delivery.

The robotic motor and sensors within the surgical simulator recreate the feeling of human touch to build 3D VR patient models within seconds. “With our technology and focused approach toward quality care, we don’t just improve surgical training, but also help surgeons plan every case with an entirely new level of precision and confidence. We fully commit ourselves to drive surgical innovation both on the learning and on the clinical side,” says Jay Banerjee, COO, ImmersiveTouch.

ImmersiveTouch caters to different organizations that include medical device companies, hospitals, simulation centers, and educational institutions located in the United States and around the world. For medical device companies that wish to streamline the training experience of its physician customers and sales representatives, ImmersiveTouch builds custom VR medical tools and medical devices based on their CAD drawings.