Novobeing Pronounces Ted Schilowitz as Strategic Investor

December 4, 2024 – Novobeing, a supplier of medical digital actuality options for enhanced affected person care, has this week introduced that Ted Schilowitz—founding member of RED Digital Cinema and former Futurist at Paramount Footage and twentieth Century Fox—has change into a strategic investor within the firm in addition to a member of its govt group.

Novobeing focuses on leveraging digital actuality (VR) to supply psychological well being and well-being help throughout in-hospital procedures that usually go away sufferers confined for prolonged intervals. The corporate famous that hospital stays, significantly for most cancers remedies or different intensive procedures, are sometimes accompanied by important misery, together with ache, anxiousness, and stress. Novobeing’s platform is designed to handle these challenges by delivering a spread of therapeutic applications tailor-made to enhance psychological and emotional resilience.

Based on Novobeing, Schilowitz’s journey into healthcare expertise stems from a deeply private expertise. After two life-threatening surgical procedures left him confined to a hospital mattress, Schilowitz skilled firsthand the challenges sufferers face—anxiousness, ache and lengthy, emotionally draining days with little to interact the thoughts or carry the spirit.

From Cognitive Behavioral Remedy (CBT) and Constructive Psychology interventions to soothing meditation classes and immersive VR journey experiences, Novobeing’s platform helps sufferers to handle their anxiousness, cut back their notion of ache, and alleviate the emotional pressure that comes with extended hospital stays.

“With immersive expertise we will flip sterile hospital rooms into locations of hope and therapeutic—the place sufferers discover reduction, consolation, and even pleasure throughout their hardest occasions,” stated Schilowitz. “Right this moment’s highly effective and accessible {hardware} permits us to reimagine this expertise, shifting past leisure to make a profound impression on therapeutic and well-being in healthcare.”

Novobeing said that as a member of the corporate’s govt group, Schilowitz will carry his experience in immersive applied sciences and his world community to form Novobeing’s strategic imaginative and prescient, improve its model presence, and speed up the adoption of its medical VR options in healthcare methods worldwide. Schilowitz will even assist to spearhead product innovation whereas serving as a world advocate for Novobeing, championing the mixing of immersive expertise in healthcare at business occasions, panel discussions, and engagements with key stakeholders to showcase the corporate’s options.

Novobeing famous that with researchers and builders leveraging VR’s potential for scientific purposes, medical VR continues to reveal its potential as a device for delivering psychological well being remedy. The corporate additionally highlighted that regulatory businesses have authorised 60+ medical gadgets that use VR or augmented actuality (AR) expertise, and that there are at the moment over 300 revealed research that discover VR’s potential for assessing, understanding, and treating numerous psychological well being circumstances.

Novobeing said that since its founding, and with the addition of Schilowitz’s strategic funding, the corporate has to-date secured over USD $1 million in funding to advance its expertise, conduct a number of profitable scientific trials, and deploy its options in hospitals throughout the USA.

For extra data on Novobeing and its digital actuality affected person expertise platform, please go to the corporate’s website.

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