Moving Digital Health

Moving Digital Health: Daniel Baldwin of MARS VR Lab

Episode Summary

Daniel Baldwin, founder and CEO of MARS VR Lab, joins MindSea CEO Reuben Hall to discuss virtual reality (VR) and its vast potential for healthcare. MARS VR Lab is currently using VR technology to gamify the challenges of pediatric wheelchair training. With a passion for tech matched only by his compassion for the patients it serves, Daniel shares how he and his team brought their idea to fruition, and his hopes for the future of VR in healthcare. Before founding Halifax VR, and later, MARS VR Lab, Daniel spent years as a project manager in the software development and e-learning fields. It was through his experience at Halifax VR that Daniel came to realize how far beyond entertainment VR’s applications can go. Now at MARS VR Lab, he combines his experience as a software developer with his thousands of hours of experience guiding others through VR experiences to create a pediatric rehabilitation process patients can actually enjoy.

Episode Notes

Before founding Halifax VR, and later, MARS VR Lab, Daniel spent years as a project manager in the software development and e-learning fields. 

It was through his experience at Halifax VR that Daniel came to realize how far beyond entertainment VR’s applications can go. Now at MARS VR Lab, he combines his experience as a software developer with his thousands of hours of experience guiding others through VR experiences to create a pediatric rehabilitation process patients can actually enjoy.

Episode Highlights

• How Daniel became enamored with developing VR for medical purposes
• Making the most of pandemic-related delays
• Navigating the medical research trial process
• Daniel’s theory about healthcare’s notorious resistance to new tech
• Real-world benefits realized from the process of calibrating a virtual wheelchair
• How VR technology has advanced to an intuitive level of usability
• How MARS VR Lab’s program addresses specific competency criteria
• The emotional investment in the outcome when working with pediatric trainees
• Ethical challenges as a business working with a non-profit
• Instrumental partnership with the IWK Children’s Hospital
• Recommendations for someone who’s never tried VR before
• The charitable institution Mars VR Lab supports
• Exciting ideas he’s come across in his research

Links 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-baldwin-728929175/?originalSubdomain=ca

https://marsvrlab.com