Virtual Reality Could Walk Physicians Through the Patient's Body

Ludovic Avot and Yannick Le Berre are big video game fans. Avot's favorite: Fallout 4, which guides players through post-apocalyptic Boston. The game is bleak but immersive, and playing it gave the GE Healthcare designer an idea. What if doctors could use video game technology to step inside the human body — like the heroes of the sci-fi movie The Fantastic Voyage — to inspect organs and tissues and search for disease? “We were inspired by the photorealistic rendering techniques of the high-quality games,” Avot says.