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# Workshop on Medical Extended Reality Devices
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/workshop-on-medical-extended-reality-devices/
- Published: 2020-01-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T15:59:00.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Devices, #legacy-id-D5145863

FDA has announced a 3/5 [public workshop](https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/workshops-conferences-medical-devices/public-workshop-medical-extended-reality-toward-best-evaluation-practices-virtual-and-augmented?ref=fdaweb.com#comments) entitled “Medical Extended Reality: Toward Best Evaluation Practices for Virtual and Augmented Reality in Medicine.” The workshop will discuss evaluation techniques for hardware, standards development, and assessment challenges for applications involving “extended reality (XR)” in medicine. Experts says that XR technologies, which include virtual reality and augmented reality, are already impacting key patient care areas in dozens of innovative applications — from medical and skill-based training to the assisted delivery of high-precision robotic surgery.

The workshop’s goal is to “identify critical gaps that may impede medical XR device development, innovation, and to advance the evaluation of medical XR devices and applications, thus accelerating the development of safe and effective medical XR devices benefiting patients and healthcare,” FDA says. “ The overarching vision of the workshop is to help advance the development of evaluation techniques for medical XR devices and applications to ultimately accelerate the development of safe and effective medical uses of XR, providing benefits to patients.”