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Dräger and VirtualiSurg receive Obsidian Award for Babyleo XR extended reality simulator.
Dräger and VirtualiSurg won the first-ever Obsidian Award for their Dräger Virtuo XR Babyleo project, an extended reality simulator created to train medical teams in NICUs. The award is organized by the Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR), an international organization dedicated to promoting and supporting extended reality (XR) technologies, which include virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR).
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