India, Jan. 20 -- Surgeons who experience VR simulations had improved psycho-motor skills and their performance in the operating room improved significantly

A few years ago Pokemon Go, an augmented reality (AR) game developed by Niantic Inc took the gaming universe by storm. Gamers - young and the not so young (including this writer) - were obsessively hooked on to their smart-phone screens.

They moved around the streets, swiping vigorously trying to catch their favourite pokemon. These were to be found in specific locations in the real world, visible only through the augmented environment of their smart-phone screen.

For the uninitiated, AR is an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the r...