Real-time video streaming in medicine using virtual reality

Nowadays, medical science is faced with many challenges that prevent doctors and researchers from working quickly and efficiently. Such a challenge is, for example, the evaluation of digitized 3D pathological serial sections in a consultative manner. This selected example brings to the surface several obstacles, the solution of which can improve everyday work and medical education in other medical fields as well. One of these difficulties is overcoming the distance, and the other is reducing the need for hardware resources since not all users can be expected to have the most modern computer components. Our goal was to design and implement a solution that enables users (doctors, researchers, educators, medical students) from anywhere in the world to participate in the evaluation of 3D digitized pathological samples, even with the use of limited hardware resources, all in an environment provided by virtual reality technology within.