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Virtual distance Education for Nurses

During the simulation, students role-played using their avatars to select interventions for a patient suffering chest pain and cardiac dysrhythmia. The patient’s vital signs were projected on the back wall of the ER bay and were updated throughout the session.

Students chose from a group of simulated real-life interventions, including oxygen hookups, medication, CPR, defibrillation, or IV therapy, with their avatars doing the work on screen. Then the simulated patient, controlled by either the instructor or another student, responded realistically to what the students chose.

Check out Otoy, hopefully something that we’ll be seeing in the mainstream virtual graphics world soon.

OTOY is an 800k web plug-in that enables cinematic quality 3D rendering in a browser with compressed content streams that load in seconds. OTOY web browser applications include next generation games, 3D virtual communities, instant messaging and social networking applets, and application and desktop sharing tools. OTOY can seamlessly mix HTML, Flash, Java and other rich media content within its core rendering and script engines - enabling unique and powerful web applications that can be built around existing web sites and services.