Research and Markets, "World's largest market research resource", "+/- 375,000 reports", included in its offering a report named Virtual Reality in Healthcare 2008 - 2012.

Supposing that VR is an unavoidable element of all future technology developments, the company proposes to its customers a deep insight of how healthcare can benefit from virtual reality tools. The scope of the research covers equipment, software, services and education involved in the field, forecasting the market size in the years to come and segmenting it in geographical regions.

This is not the first report of the kind, and it is no surprise that healthcare industry is getting more and more interested in these questions. VR is already widely present its different aspects, raging from surgery and surgical procedures planning to rehabilitation and training. Techniques such as simulation, modeling or visualization being of high value for many activities related to healthcare, the demand can only increase.

Cost of the report - $1000 for a one user licence.

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