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With VolumetricOR surgical staff can learn and train surgical interventions in a photorealistic virtual operating room (OR). Situated in a virtual reality (VR) environment users can experience surgical workflows based on the spatial reconstruction of images recorded directly in the operating theater. While existing simulation formats restrict users in terms of scale, perspective and field of view, in VolumetricOR trainees can experience a scene three-dimensionally, from any perspective and in real scale as if they are physically present.

VolumetricOR improves the linking of theoretical expertise and practical application of knowledge and shifts the learning experience from observation to participation. It can be applied for digital training and education as well as for quality assessment, legal documentation and recruitment. Trainees can acquire procedural knowledge before going to the operating room and professional staff could improve the efficiency and quality of the learning and training process by communicating techniques and workflows when the possibilities of training on-site are limited.

• Project lead: Prof. Dr. Moritz Queisner
• Team: Prof. Dr. Igor Sauer, Christopher Remde, Michael Pogorzhelskiy, Peter Tang, Priv.-Doz. Dr. Simon Moosburner
• Duration 2017 - 2023
• Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)

• Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Humboldt University of Berlin

• Queisner M, Pogorzhelskiy M, Remde C, Pratschke J, Sauer IM. VolumetricOR: A New Approach to Simulate Surgical Interventions in Virtual Reality for Training and Education. Surgical Innovation. 2022;(1):1-10. doi.org/10.1177/15533506211054240.