SINGAPORE (Jan 13): A paramedic is attending to a heart-attack patient who collapsed by the sidewalk 10 minutes ago. While one of the medics prepares to give him an aspirin tablet to chew on, the patient suddenly loses consciousness.

Nearby, his superior watches the action through live video, data feeds and real-time maps and is able to give treatment advice and direct the ambulance driver to take the quickest route to the hospital.

But instead of all observing the action from a command centre stacked with multiple monitors, he is seeing this through a virtual reality (VR) headset he is wearing.

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