Watch: In World's First, UK Medical Students Use VR Headsets To Train On Holographic Patients

This new technology could provide more flexible, cost-effective training than traditional simulation, which requires more resources and expenses.

Medical students in the United Kingdom are the first in the world to learn with holographic patients.  Medical students at Addenbrooke's are the first in the world to experience a new way of learning, using the latest in mixed reality holographic patients.The new training application HoloScenarios is being developed in partnership with @Cambridge_Uni and @GIGXR1. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/Pr3BFsqWhy

The University of Cambridge informed that students at Addenbrooke's Hospital are using a training system called HoloScenarios, which enables teaching and learning with life-like holograms, accessible from anywhere in the world. The technology is being developed by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH), the University of Cambridge and Los Angeles-based tech company GigXR.

According to the Independent, the developers believe that this new technology could provide more flexible, cost-effective training than traditional simulation, which requires more resources and expenses for maintaining labs and hiring patient actors.