Research Institute Joins EU Virtual Reality Project to Revolutionize Healthcare [Video]

A Hungarian research institute is taking part in a €7.8 million program called “VR Health Champions” to accelerate the uptake of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies in healthcare across Europe, EIT Health InnoStars, one of the program coordinators, announced in a press release.

The three-year project aims to break down market, clinical, and regulatory barriers and accelerate the development of VR and AR, collectively known as XR (extended reality) applications in less developed regions. It will be co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund’s Interregional Innovation Investment(I3) instrument.

The program brings together 18 partners from eight EU Member States, including the Hungarian Syreon Research Institute, in nine regional ecosystems to provide targeted support to five selected SMEs.

The aim is to foster advances in medical diagnostics, therapies, and surgery, and to develop the European healthcare XR technology ecosystem through knowledge transfer and funding opportunities.

The European XR market is …