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Why the Best Way to Train a Surgeon Is in Virtual Reality ft. Justin Barad, Osso VR

Podcast: The AI XR Podcast. · Charlie Fink Productions

Opublikowano: 2026-07-13

Justin Barad is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon, a former Activision game developer, and the founder of Osso VR — one of the few companies in XR that has quietly built a real, profitable business while most of the industry was still searching for one. He joins Charlie and Ted to talk about why virtual reality turned out to be uniquely suited to medical training, and why the way we train surgeons today is still built on a model developed in the 1800s by a brilliant doctor with a serious drug problem. The core argument of the episode is...