
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The metaverse can provide new opportunities for education in retina, according to a speaker at the Retina World Congress.
S.K. Steven Houston III, MD, said the pandemic propelled virtual education forward. However, Zoom and two-dimensional webinars were just the initial entry into virtual education.
“The technology is moving forward,” he said. “I think education is going to continue to push forward with it.”
Houston said there has been an effort to bring surgical education into the metaverse to take advantage of spatial computing advances