Surgera VR
Surgera VR
“Welcome to the operating room, doctor.” Surgera VR is a free surgical simulation that puts you at the operating table with a patient who needs an urgent procedure to restore their breathing. Each step is demonstrated, then you pick up the right instrument and perform it yourself. It is short and simple, but it is a free and genuinely hands‑on taste of what working in an operating theatre involves.
143 user reviews
Surgera VR is an educational medical simulation from HealthCare VR Innovations, Inc., released free on Steam on 4 March 2018. You stand in a virtual operating room beside a patient who needs an urgent respiration recovery procedure, a surgical intervention to restore their ability to breathe. The patient has already been anaesthetised by local infiltration, so the scene begins at the point where the surgeon takes over.
The procedure is broken into a series of manipulations. For each one the simulation proposes the correct tool and action, and until you pick the tool up a demonstration animation plays out in front of you, showing what needs to happen. Selecting the instrument ends the demonstration and hands control to you. When you complete the action correctly, the on‑screen hint changes to confirm it, and you move on to the next step.
For a more detailed look at surgical robotics, see our review of the Surgical Robot Simulator, and for anatomy in depth try Human Anatomy VR.
- Completely free
- Clear demonstrate then perform structure
- Instant confirmation of each correct step
- Real sense of standing at the operating table
- Tiny download (400 MB)
- Runs on older gaming PCs
- Only one procedure to practise
- Mixed reviews: 51% positive of 143
- Released in 2018 with few updates since
- PC VR only (designed for Vive and Rift)
- Needs standing room in front of the PC
- English only
- Surgical content may unsettle some students
