360° video recording inside a GI endoscopy room: Technical feasibility and its potential use for the acquisition of gastrointestinal endoscopy skills. Pilot experience.

New advances in video processing, 3-dimensional designs, and augmented/virtual reality are exciting and evolving fields. These new tools can facilitate the learning phase of basic or advanced endoscopic procedures. Herein, we explain our initial experience, creating an immersive virtual reality (IVR) by using 360-degree recording videos from an interventional endoscopy room. Some common terms used around this technology, such as Augmented reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Three hundred sixty videos, and Mixed Reality (MR), are discussed below. Three examples of VR 360 endoscopic room videos are included in this article.