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Renhao Wong · · 1 min read

Video: This VR heart takes learning to a whole new level

The human heart is an intricate organ, and for medical students, learning more about it can be one bloody affair – literally.

That’s where Stanford hopes to help. It has created a highly detailed model of a beating heart for its medical trainees to learn about the heart’s inner workings, while understanding complex congenital heart defects.

Editing by Steven Millward

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Renhao Wong

Communications and digital media professional by day. Gamer by night.