Volume Interactions Pte Ltd was a company that pioneered in the 1990s the use

Virtual Reality Virtual reality (VR) is a Simulation, simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video gam ...

technology in Surgical planning, surgery planning. The company created and marketed the Dextroscope, the first commercial surgical planning system that used virtual reality principles going beyond the mouse and keyboard. The Dextroscope introduced a variation of

technology that didn't use Head-Mounted display (using instead a Stereoscopic Displays and Applications, stereoscopic display that housed a 3D user interface, two-handed 3D user interface) that provided a natural and comfortable interface to work with multi-modality 3D Medical imaging, medical images for long periods of time. This environment was applied to the planning of patient-specific surgical approaches for several clinical disciplines, including neurosurgery, Otorhinolaryngology, Ear-Nose-Throat, and liver surgery. The Dextroscope received world-wide attention by being involved in the planning of several Craniopagus twins, craniopagus twin separations, most notably the Joseph and Luka Banda, Zambian twins (1997) and the German twins (2004) at Johns Hopkins Hospital led by Dr Ben Carson, Benjamin Carson, and the Nepali twins separation at the Singapore General Hospital in 2001. The Dextroscope was launched in Europe in 2000 and subsequently in Asia and the USA (2006). The company later introduced the Dextrobeam, a product designed to make 3D medical Stereoscopy, stereoscopic presentations to large audiences, using stereoscopic projection systems. The company Quality Management System complied with the requirements of ISO 13485:2003 and the products were listed in the Singapore Medical Device Registration (SMDR) by the Health Sciences Authority of Singapore. The Dextroscope and Dextrobeam received USA FDA 510(K) - class II (2002) clearance, CE Marking - class I (2002), China SFDA Registration - class II (2004) and Taiwan Registration - type P (Radiology) (2007). The company was a spin-off company from th
Kent Ridge Digital Labs
research institute in Singapore. The company was founded in 2000 in Singapore by Luis Serra, Ng Hern, Ralf A Kockro, Eugene CK Lee and Chris Goh with seed capital fro
Life Sciences Investments (LSI) Pte Ltd.
a co-investment fund of the Singapor
Economic Development Board Investments Pte Ltd.
(EDBI). It was later acquired by th
Bracco Group
in 2002. Volume Interactions ceased commercial operations in 2008.

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