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HIKER Featured as Healthcare Digital Hub Announced for Leeds

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We were privileged to host Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care at Virtuocity on Thursday 5th June. During the visit to the University of Leeds the MP announced a new digital hub in Leeds city centre, being launched by the Government agency the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

5 June 2025.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care visiting The University of Leeds on Thursday.

Pete Woodthorpe, Virtuocity Programme Manager and Associate Professor Yee Mun Lee hosted Mr Streeting, along with Katie White, MP for Leeds West, Tom Riordan, Second Permanent Secretary, DHSC and Lawrence Tallon, Chief Executive Officer of Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for a demonstration of HIKER's virtual hospital surgery theatre. This environment allows participants to explore and interact with an example of a surgery theatre and can be combined with Virtuocity's experience in developing realistic scenarios and research studies to better understand how we can use spaces more effectively to support training, education and rehabilitation.

The Highly Immersive Kinematic Experimental Research (HIKER) lab is the largest, ‘CAVE-based’ pedestrian simulation environment of its type in the world and allows participants to interact with a variety of environments in a 9 x 4 m walking space with a level of real-world performance that is not possible using head-mounted Virtual Reality equipment.

5 June 2025.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care visiting The University of Leeds on Thursday.

For more information about this visit, and the digital hub please visit the University of Leeds' main article here: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/5791/hi-tech-healthcare-in-leeds

For more information about HIKER, and its uses please click here visit Collaborate or contact our general email on [email protected] .

5 June 2025.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care visiting The University of Leeds on Thursday.