Level Ex simulates surgery in a mobile app. Pictured is the throat of a virtual patient.
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Level Ex lets doctors practice virtual surgery in a mobile app

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Level Ex is announcing today that it will enable doctors to practice surgery in a realistic 3D virtual surgery mobile app.

The app shows how much progress mobile technology has made in being able to show realistic graphics. And it also recognizes that doctors have few options for honing their surgical skills in a safe and realistic setting. Cutting-edge video game technology could thus prove very useful in medicine.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.