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With the recent development of information and communication technology, social interest invirtual reality (VR) is increasing rapidly. VR technology is expanding into applications suchas games, movies, entertainment, healthcare, education/media, manufacturing, and construction. In the healthcare, VR is used for surgical training, medical education, rehabilitationmedicine, pain control, and treatment for psychiatric disorder, but the market size of VR inhealthcare is not big compared to VR application in other industries. However, as the demandfor high-quality medical care increases and the training time of the resident physicians is reduced,the demand for VR in the healthcare is expected to increase rapidly. Especially, the noseand paranasal sinus are composed of complicated osseous structures, which makes it difficultto understand the exact anatomy and requires highly skilled techniques to perform accurateand safe surgery. For this reason, nose and sinus are a suitable field to apply VR technology. In this review article, we describe the overview of VR technology used in healthcare, the statusand prospects of VR in endoscopic sinus surgery and facial plastic surgery.
