CASE STUDY
VR Training Environment
A fully navigable VR training environment spanning a doctor's consulting room and a pathology laboratory, placing oncologists inside a real patient case, to work through biomarker testing step by step.
A fully navigable VR training environment spanning a doctor's consulting room and a pathology laboratory, placing oncologists inside a real patient case, to work through biomarker testing step by step.
Built a fully interactive VR environment spanning a doctor's office and a working pathology lab, placing oncologists inside a real NSCLC patient case and walking them through the entire biomarker testing pathway, from ordering molecular tests to interpreting IHC slides and understanding novel computational scoring. The experience passed full MLR review for use in a regulated promotional context.
The experience delivered a level of scientific depth and hands-on realism that no slide deck or video could replicate: HCPs physically handled patient files, operated lab equipment, and made clinical decisions as they moved through the environment.
"The ability to physically pick up objects, walk into the lab and see the scanner process and slide details, made the testing pathway very engaging."
The client needed to train oncologists on a novel approach to biomarker scoring for NSCLC, a complex multi-step process involving molecular pathology requests, immunohistochemistry staining, digital slide scanning, and computational image analysis. Traditional medical education materials couldn't convey the interplay between clinical decision-making and laboratory workflow. The brief was to build something that put the HCP inside the process.
I built a dual-environment VR experience in Unity for the PICO headset: a complete clinical simulation in which the user steps into the role of a treating physician and navigates through a full patient case from consultation to molecular pathology report.