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Leap Motion is a technology company that embeds virtual reality into many different fields to remove the barrier between people and technology. This Colossal blog post introduces the new “Cat Explorer” that allows humans to virtually interact with the interior of an animated cat. The movement of the user’s hand is co-operated with virtual settings to show real life internal movements of the organs, muscles, and different body systems when touched.

This VR technology can be an innovative educational tool in the medical field for studying bodies of humans and animals. Even better, if this type of technology coordinates with different types of nuclear scans that exist today, hopefully, in the future, patients, doctors, and nurses will find a quicker answer to biological solutions. I admire these type of technology because it can easily open up new perspectives to people who are at war with sicknesses that have shallow research due to limited research tools. However, one critique for this project would be accessibility. This type of medical research would require economic capabilities causing many people around the world not being able to access such technology.