MAGES 3.0: Tying the knot of medical VR
This addresses the urgent need for modernized surgical training tools for medical professionals, though it appears incremental as an updated version of an existing platform.
The authors tackled the problem of outdated medical training by developing MAGES 3.0, a VR-based authoring SDK platform for surgical training and assessment, which enables code-free prototyping of VR psychomotor simulations by medical professionals.
In this work, we present MAGES 3.0, a novel Virtual Reality (VR)-based authoring SDK platform for accelerated surgical training and assessment. The MAGES Software Development Kit (SDK) allows code-free prototyping of any VR psychomotor simulation of medical operations by medical professionals, who urgently need a tool to solve the issue of outdated medical training. Our platform encapsulates the following novel algorithmic techniques: a) collaborative networking layer with Geometric Algebra (GA) interpolation engine b) supervised machine learning analytics module for real-time recommendations and user profiling c) GA deformable cutting and tearing algorithm d) on-the-go configurable soft body simulation for deformable surfaces.