In 2026, Kennispark-based JJ-MEDTECH introduces a new revolutionary extended reality headset on the major European medical conventions. This immersive technology combined with life-like anatomical models called phantoms will dramatically reshape the way surgeons and their teams practice their skills. Improving the training of resident doctors, experienced surgeons and their teams will lead to better patient safety.
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Wireless extended reality headset and phantoms
VioVision XR-S (Extended Reality-System) for surgical training, is a wireless headset with advanced technology, high end hardware and patented software. The innovative headset is worn by student surgeons and physician assistants. Its key features include first-person surgeon cameras, miniature projectors, and see-through lenses, that function as movie screens. The set includes an advanced touch screen laptop and a wireless hub that is operated by the student. The student doctor wears this immersive headset and practices on a phantom that feels very real and that consists of a special hydrogel and contains skin, fat, muscle tissue and a specific medical artifact. By practicing on phantoms, surgical training is brought outside of the operating room, and will result in enhanced patient safety.
Remote training of complete teams
Both inventions enable remote training. A teacher, maybe a specialist doctor, or someone who invented a new procedure, will coach the pupil online from another place in the world through teleconferencing software. The first-person cameras allow instructors to see what their student is seeing. While the student learns a new procedure and wears the headset, the instructor sees the entire operation site. The remote teacher vocally coaches the student through the headset’s integrated audio. The patented software lets teachers draw on their own screens, to give hints or mark a specific location in the phantom or patients anatomy, while these drawings instantly appear on the see through glasses in front of the (remote) student’s eyes. The audio of the trainer can be output to a BT speaker for a whole team to listen in.
Overlayed X-ray, ultrasound and/or other monitor data
Many procedures are done using image guidance and or under X-ray. This requires the surgeon to look at one or two monitors (e.g. ultrasound) rather than their hands and the operative site. This might cause a distraction. By displaying the live video streams or images from these monitors on the see-through lenses built in the headset, directly to the surgeons’ eyes, they stay focused on the operative site and their hands. Student physicians, rather than turning their heads to look at monitors, see the patient with the monitor images overlayed on the operative site. It gives students a sense of looking inside the patient and a “superhuman” feeling: their visual perception is enhanced beyond normal capabilities.
Instructor sees what the student sees
If the instructors are remote, they can see the student first-person view of the students and these live video images. VioVision XR-S runs on patented software that arranges the different images and allows the instructor to provide annotations that can be viewed direct in the student’s eyes.
Full market launch of the new wireless system
VioVision XR-S had a pre-market release in 2024-2025. It has been validated by over 200 surgeons and along with the phantoms, has experienced more than 20 print and video publications. The system is currently being used in Europe and the United States. When first wearing the headset a doctor in New York stated: “Wow, I can see the patient, my hands ánd the monitor streams in front of my eyes!”
Full market launch of the new wireless system for Europe, Middle East and Africa is planned in 2026 at the major European medical conventions like EAU in London, UK and EUROSPINE in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Quote of doctor in New York:
“Wow, I can see the patient, my hands ánd all monitor streams in front of my eyes”
