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AVRMD is a community for virtual, augmented and mixed reality in medicine: the clinicians, researchers, engineers, manufacturers and business people who build, test, buy and use it. Everything is readable without an account. The quickest way in is to ask the assistant; this page explains the rest.

1. Getting started

Create an account

1. Go to Create account. Your email address is your account.
2. Choose a password of at least 10 characters. A few unrelated words work well.
3. Open the confirmation email and press Continue. The link works for 24 hours.

Or use Continue with Google: no password or confirmation email is needed. If you were invited by an editor, the invitation link creates a confirmed account in one step.

The welcome step

After your first sign-in, one short page asks what you do, which stages of the pipeline you work on, what you can help with and which clinical areas you follow. This decides which questions are sent to you and what your weekly digest contains. You can skip it and fill it in later in Settings.

Forgot your password?

Use Reset your password. The link works once, for 30 minutes, and signs you out on every other device.

2. Ask AVRMD, the assistant

Press Ask AVRMD in the header (or the button in the corner of any page) and type a question in plain words, for example “Which VR products are FDA-cleared for pain?” or “Who makes RelieVRx?”.

• It searches AVRMD's own content: catalog records, FDA authorizations, papers and news, talks, stage and topic guides, related websites and member questions.
• It answers briefly and cites its sources; every claim links to the page it came from. Check the source before relying on anything.
• It suggests next steps, such as a page to open or asking members when the library has no answer.
• It is not medical advice, and it does not know about anything that isn't on AVRMD. Don't type patient information into it.
• Each visitor has a daily allowance of AI-written answers. After that, the assistant still lists the matching sources.

3. The library

Under Library in the header:

• Records: organizations, products, evidence, events, projects and open problems, each with its sources. Filter by specialty, use case, modality and stage.
• FDA AR/VR devices: the FDA's list of authorized AR/VR medical devices, refreshed daily.
• Papers & news: papers, trials, filings and news found by AVRMD's daily robot. These are unreviewed; read the source.
• Talks: recorded talks and lectures, curated and shared by members.
• Gear and Websites: hardware, and other sites worth knowing.

Stages follows a product from idea to market (research and evidence, technology, design, implementation, clinical validation, regulatory, manufacturing and commercialization) and shows what matters at each step. Clinical topics such as surgical training or pain management gather everything on one subject.

To catch up quickly, read Weekly: every Sunday, one short article on the week's FDA authorizations, papers, trials, industry news and community questions, with links to the pages on AVRMD.

Something missing or wrong? Suggest a record. Editors check every suggestion against its source before it is published.

4. Questions and answers

Ask

1. Go to Ask a question (you need to be signed in).
2. Write a clear title (under 200 characters) and, if useful, details.
3. Add tags: topics, stages and what kind of help you need. Tags decide who sees it.

AVRMD sends your question to the members who said they can help with those tags (up to 8 people), and it appears on Questions for everyone. You are notified when someone answers. Mark the answer that helped you; it moves to the top and its author is told.

Answer

Open any question and write your answer. Share experience and sources; say what you don't know. Never include patient information.

5. Your profile and the member directory

In Settings you can set your display name, handle, bio, professional roles, stages, what you can help with, what you are looking for, the clinical topics you follow and your organization. Your email address is never shown publicly.

Members lists people who have described themselves, and can be filtered by role and stage, so a startup can find a clinician, or a hospital an engineer. Only members who filled in a role or stage are listed. You can follow members and organizations.

6. Sharing your work

• Talks: share a recorded talk with a link, speakers and tags.
• Network: post updates with images; others can like and comment.
• Suggest a record: a product, study, event or organization that belongs in the library.

7. Notifications and email

• The bell in the header shows answers to your questions, questions sent to you, and accepted answers. See all.
• The same events are emailed to you. Turn each kind on or off under Settings → Email.
• The weekly digest arrives on Mondays: new FDA authorizations, papers and trials closest to your work, and questions you could answer. It is not sent in weeks with nothing new.
• Every email has an unsubscribe link that works with one click, no sign-in needed.

8. For organizations

Companies, hospitals, universities and societies listed in the library can claim their record. An editor confirms you work there, usually through your work email. A verified representative can correct the record, run the organization's group (forum, blog and media) and receive private enquiries. Promotion options are clearly labelled as sponsored. See For organizations.

9. Safety, privacy and your account

• Report a question, answer or post with the report link beneath it: patient information, spam, harassment, a misleading or unsafe medical claim, copyright, or something else. Editors review every report.
• AVRMD is professional information, not medical advice. Never post anything that could identify a patient.
• Delete your account at the bottom of Settings. Your profile, posts, questions, answers and notifications are removed.
• Read the privacy policy and terms, and how AVRMD works.

10. For editors and administrators

Editors, moderators and administrators see Admin in their account menu. The Overview tab shows what is waiting in each of the others:

• Review queue: what the daily robot found, with the AI's recommendation and a draft record. Correct the draft and approve or reject it. Items the AI set aside can be restored. Approved records publish with the next deploy.
• Reports: hide the reported content or dismiss the report.
• Contributions: record suggestions, claims and promotion enquiries; mark each done or declined.
• Invite people: send a personal invitation with an optional note. Replies go to your inbox; the list shows who has joined.
• AI team: six AI agents that draft work for you. Mira writes the Sunday Weekly article, Iris drafts answers to member questions, Sentinel assesses reports, Echo writes invitation notes, Atlas writes a weekly site report and Nova writes research briefings. Assign a task, then open it to edit the draft and approve, reject or run it again. Nothing reaches members until you approve; approving posts or sends it under your name. Administrators switch agents on and off, let them pick up routine work on their own, and set daily limits.
• Members (moderators and administrators): search every account and open a member to see their details, activity and history. Moderators can suspend and restore accounts; a suspended account is signed out everywhere, cannot sign in, and disappears from the directory and from email. Administrators can also change roles (member, editor, moderator, administrator) and delete accounts. Every action is recorded with who did it.

Still stuck?

Ask the assistant, or ask the community. To reach the editors, reply to any email from AVRMD.