FDA approves first medical VR, Avatar helps stroke rehabilitation
Rehabilitation after a stroke often takes a lot of time and the prognosis is not good. However, the latest virtual reality has recently received FDA approval to help patients recover better and faster.
The system was developed by the Swiss company MindMaze and has been approved and marketed in the European market. This FDA approval will be the first to promote VR to US hospitals for patients with impaired brain.
The US-based San Francisco-based company is currently focusing on the development of the Neurorehabilitation system. The approved product, MindMotion Pro, uses a 3D motion tracking camera to coordinate brain function and limb movements.
The system then analyzed the data to provide personalized treatment for each patient, and the company co-founder and CEO, Tej Tadi, told Axios.
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The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Lausanne with offices in Zurich and Romania.
Established three years ago, the company has received $8.5 million in angel round financing. Last year, Hinduja, a private bank of the Indian family group based in Switzerland, injected $100 million. This gives MindMaze a valuation of $1.1 billion.
This is the fifth virtual reality company that has raised more than 100 million yuan. It is also one of the biggest financing for VR rehabilitation.
The biggest feature of the FDA-approved system today is that patients use their arms (Avatar) to use their arms or fingertips to do a series of actions. Even if some patients can't actually operate, they can issue commands to Avatar in the brain. This also activates the cranial nerves and helps the lost brain recover.
MindMaze's partners include Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco.
It can help activate brain function through mind control and virtual gameplay. Currently, the company will be promoted in hospitals, with a price of about $80,000. The entire medical VR market is expected to reach $5.1 billion by 2025 and users will reach 3.4 million.
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