How AVRMD works.

A source-linked map of medical XR

AVRMD is a professional reference for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality in healthcare. It does three things: it keeps a structured database of organisations, solutions, evidence, events, projects, and hardware; it gives professionals a place to discuss what actually works; and it gives companies and institutions a way to maintain their own record and promote responsibly.

“Medical XR” is the umbrella term. VR, AR, and MR remain explicit filters, and “MX” is kept as a search alias.

How records are reviewed

Every record carries a review state describing how far it has been checked. A review state describes provenance only. It is never a statement about clinical effectiveness, safety, or regulatory approval.

Each record also shows the date it was last reviewed, because a regulatory or product fact that was correct last year may not be correct now.

Sources

Every public record links to the source it came from — a regulator’s record, a journal, or an organisation’s own site. AVRMD stores citation metadata and its own short summary. It does not republish articles, abstracts, or media it has no right to reproduce.

Collection is limited to allowlisted metadata APIs, feeds, open-licence repositories, official owner domains, and URLs supplied by editors with a documented rights basis. AVRMD does not crawl the open web indiscriminately or bypass paywalls, robots rules, or source terms.

Ownership claims

Claiming a page is free and always will be. A claim is verified with a work-domain email and gives a representative control over the official facts on that record: description, updates, events, and inquiry routing.

A claim does not extend further than that. Owners cannot remove linked evidence, delete criticism, alter another organisation’s record, or change where their record ranks. Moderation stays independent of the people being discussed.

Advertising

Campaigns are quoted by staff and invoiced offline. There is no self-serve ad purchase, and evidence records never carry advertising.

How AI is used

Ask AVRMD first searches what is already on this site: catalog records, the FDA’s list of authorized AR/VR devices, the papers, trials and news the daily discovery job collects, talks, stage guides, and member questions. A language model then writes a short answer from those sources only, numbering each claim to the source it came from. A citation to anything it was not given is removed before you see it, and if the sources do not answer the question it says so.

The links it suggests next are generated by the site, not by the model. The model is never sent anything about members beyond a count of people who offered help; it runs through providers that do not retain or train on requests, and usage is capped daily. When no model is available, you get the matching sources without the written summary. It is professional information, never medical advice.

AI never publishes anything on its own. Where AI proposes fields for a record, an editor reviews a source-versus-draft comparison and approves or rejects it before it appears.

Community

Safety boundary

AVRMD is professional reference information. It does not provide diagnosis, treatment recommendations, or clinical consultation, and nothing here should be used to make a care decision for an individual patient.

Do not post patient information or personal health information anywhere on AVRMD, including inquiries and discussions. Regulatory status shown on a record is specific to a region and a date, and it belongs to the product or system described — never to general-purpose hardware it runs on.