Could Avatar's Technology Improve Medicine?

That’s the question being asked by io9.com.

Director James Cameron has promised us that Avatar represents a huge technological advancement, a blending of real-world performances and imagination that will transport us to the foreign world of Pandora in an immersive, visceral way. But developers of medical technologies are looking to achieve the same sort of experience with the world we have, and the entertainment industry’s advances in image capture and graphics processing are paving the way.

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