MAI develops VR-based solutions for the healthcare industry - PR Newswire

, /PRNewswire/ -- Acupuncture, originated successful past Chinese medicine, has go a well-known complementary attraction worldwide successful caller years. To assistance aesculapian students amended recognize however it works, Medical Augmented Intelligence, Inc. (MAI), supported by National Development Council, offers precocious technological VR solutions. Their innovations are recognized by respective probe centers, which led to an invitation to enactment successful the Alternative Cancer Therapies Research Programme.

During an acupuncture treatment, an acupuncturist inserts precise bladed needles into circumstantial points connected the patient's assemblage for therapeutic oregon pain-relief purposes. It involves stimulating sensory nerves nether the tegument and into the muscles. By relocating users to an immersive virtual situation for a simulation experience, MAI builds a metaverse wherever wellness practitioners are capable to summation a broad cognition to lick analyzable aesculapian issues via acupuncture treatment.

Sam, the CEO of MAI, has traveled extensively astir the satellite and consequently suffered from pitchy lag, which led to wellness problems. When helium recovered from his unwellness done acupuncture, helium began to wonderment what the technological mentation down acupuncture was. "I truly privation to cognize wherefore an acupuncturist treats feet erstwhile determination is simply a headache," said Sam.

Unlike astir entrepreneurs, Sam established his ain concern retired of curiosity astir acupuncture. His acupuncture practitioner erstwhile told him that determination is simply a bounds to the fig of patients an acupuncturist tin dainty each day, but the much radical larn astir the mentation down acupuncture, the much they volition payment from it. Inspired by the acupuncturist, Sam decided to make VR-based applications that not lone assistance the contiguous and aboriginal generations of wellness practitioners but besides the wide public.

Founded successful 2016, MAI combines aesculapian cognition and practices rooted successful Eastern and Western cultures, with a ngo to make high-quality VR-based solutions for the young generations. Their cardinal products supply aesculapian and acquisition institutions with new, effectual teaching and learning methods. Adopting AI and algorithms, AcuMap enables students to visually immerse themselves successful a metaverse of acupuncture wherever they tin signifier needle insertion and observe however antithetic acupuncture points are connected to sensory neurons.

Another VR exertion developed by MAI is BodyMap, a medically close VR anatomy and simulation grooming bundle which provides students with 3D ocular images and immersive learning experiences. Unlike accepted textbooks, BodyMap enables aboriginal aesculapian practitioners to amended recognize quality organs, nerves, bones, and different assemblage systems by intimately observing and adjacent peeking into a 3D virtual model.

With distributors successful galore countries worldwide, MAI's VR applications person already served aesculapian institutions successful the US, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macau and Europe.

 "AcuMap and BodyMap are similar Google Maps successful the aesculapian field." Sam pointed out, believing societal collaboration is the cardinal to the healthcare industry, "The aboriginal of aesculapian acquisition is each astir collaborative learning wherever users are capable to socially interact with others astir the world." Social collaboration done precocious VR exertion allows aesculapian institutions to widen their existing teaching methods to a caller procreation of aesculapian acquisition that is much immersive and interactive and little costly. 

In the future, not lone tin aesculapian students interruption the geographical constraints of learning, but patients tin besides person much contiguous and businesslike treatment. What is more, galore diseases that were antecedently undiagnosed volition person the accidental to beryllium treated done innovative grooming of aesculapian personnel. To execute this goal, according to Sam, MAI volition enactment intimately with starring aesculapian institutions and experts, continuously processing and optimizing their solutions with new, and innovative features.

SOURCE National Development Council