Until recently, the only way for leaders of diagnostics laboratories to examine what future lab set-ups might look like was to view a cardboard model. Unfortunately, cardboard representations of proposed lab architecture provide limited insights into how this future lab might work, or if it would work at all.
Now, with the emergence of new technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and computer simulations, it is much easier for lab leaders to test whether their potential new labs work as envisioned, even before any of the components have been ordered.