Partnership tests Vt. virtual tech and trains future nurses
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Vermonters helping Vermonters -- that’s the message as Castleton University nursing students beta-test virtual reality technology for a local entrepreneurial venture. Tacitly, a Rutland-based extended reality company, is working on training materials for the health care field. While their product is being developed, Vermont nursing students are getting a seat at the table.
The students might physically be standing in Castleton University but their heads are in a hospital.
“It’s kind of like video games, but not just strange -- getting the handle of your environment because you know it’s not real. But you don’t want to bump into a wall or your neighbor or something,” said Rafael Robles, a Castleton University student.
In one class, students manipulate what’s called a code cart in the nursing world.