25th May 2024, Scotland. New Start-up Business, ProCedureVR picked-up a Scottish Edge Wildcard award and a grant to start their journey at the 23rd Scottish Edge Awards, held at the Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre in Edinburgh.
ProCedureVR started life in January 2023 and is the creation of two games industry leaders, and a senior surgeon. The company plans to build specialist surgical procedure libraries for trainee surgeons to learn the steps of each surgical operation in an immersive environment, using Virtual Reality.
The Award from Scottish Edge will give ProCedureVR the opportunity to bring their ideas to life and help them along the pathway to creating their first prototype.
To win the award, ProCedureVR provided details of their innovation, created a video pitch and was grilled about their plans by innovation experts. The feedback from the judging panel included “An excellent pitch from a very credible founder who is clearly an expert in their field.” They said it was “A very exciting business proposal.”
Trainees have limited opportunities to practice
Andrew Turner, Managing Director of ProCedureVR said, “Trainee surgeons have very limited opportunities to practice surgery when they are training, leading to a lack of confidence and slowing their pathways to leading surgery.
“We plan to create immersive teaching, coaching and evaluation environments in VR, that can be used with low-cost consumer VR headsets, costing the same as a game, to provide trainee surgeons with the preparation they need, so that they get the most from the limited advanced practical experience they will receive.
“We intend to sell our software globally, making it affordable and providing it free to developing countries, enabling them to teach a wide range of surgical procedures to the next generation of surgeons.”
