Marion Surgical VR Surgery

Build a VR surgical simulator credible enough for surgeon training and pre-operative rehearsal: a faithful VR operating room, real-time haptic feedback, patient-specific anatomy reconstructed from CT data, and the supporting workflow tooling for scoring, evaluation and case management. Credibility had to start with the domain itself, which meant understanding how kidney-stone removal actually works in an operating room.

Worked directly with surgical experts and observed operating-room procedures to understand kidney-stone removal workflows, instruments and equipment, then translated that domain knowledge into design and technical specifications. Led UX for the simulation application and contributed to the core VR framework: the virtual operating room, medical equipment representation, haptics and patient-specific CT anatomy. Built interface systems and UI flows for simulation, scoring and evaluation, developed the supporting web and database components, integrated an external soft-tissue simulation, and helped implement a voice-driven virtual nurse using speech recognition and synthesized voice, years before LLM-style assistants. Managed the platform's transition from Unreal Engine to Unity and brought the work to prototype and MVP form.

Contributed to a surgical simulation platform used for immersive training and rehearsal with haptic feedback, publicly associated with the Marion K181 PCNL simulator line and later procedure-specific simulator development. The company's simulator technology was reported as being available for sale in several countries.