Move over tech startups, health is the new holy grail
A chain-smoker trying to wean himself of the cigarette addiction. A doctor holographically planning surgery on a patient before actually doing it. A war veteran living with PTSD finding relief by confronting the trauma until the anxiety is manageable. A sufferer being to visualize their acute pain and learning to manage it better rather than using opioids. These use cases are actual startups — Lucid Care, EchoPixel, Limbix, and AppliedVR respectively, and they are just examples since they are many competitors. AR and VR have indeed tremendous uses in health, published extensively in the media , but it’s certainly a nascent sector in a nascent industry. The biggest traction is arguably in medical education, for instance, Dell Greater China has developed a VR surgical training getting deployed in 10 medical schools. But overall there are no major exits yet and only a handful of companies past series B, this snapshot from larger landscape from Digi-Capital highlights som
