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Latest tool for neurosurgeons: Virtual reality headsets

By CBS News  
   May 05, 2015

Virtual reality headsets are already revolutionizing the way people experience video games: put on a pair of goggles and you can travel anywhere from outerspace to the battlefield. But gamers aren't the only ones this technology can transport to new worlds, reports CBS News' Kara Finnstrom, only on "CBS This Morning." "It's just amazing to see every little opening in the skull where a nerve goes through," said Dr. Neil Martin, chairman of University of California Los Angeles' department of neurosurgery. At UCLA, neurosurgeons are slipping on virtual reality headsets to go inside their patients' brains.

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