Trends in virtual reality technologies for the learning patient

NextMed convened the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 22 (MMVR 22) conference in 2016. Since 1992, the conference has brought together a diverse group of researchers to share creative solutions for the evolving challenge of integrating virtual reality tools into medical education. Virtual reality (VR) and its enabling technologies utilize hardware and software to simulate environments and encounters where users can interact and learn. The MMVR 22 symposium proceedings contain projects that support a variety of learners: medical students, practitioners, soldiers, and patients. This report will contemplate the trends in virtual reality technologies for patients navigating their medical and healthcare learning. The learning patient seeks more than intervention; they seek prevention. From virtual humans and environments to motion sensors and haptic devices, patients are surrounded by increasingly rich and transformative data-driven tools. Applied data enables VR applications to simulate experience, predict health outcomes, and motivate new behavior. The MMVR 22 presents investigations into the usability of wearable devices, the efficacy of avatar inclusion, and the viability of multi-player gaming. With increasing need for individualized and scalable programming, only committed open source efforts will align instructional designers, technology integrators, trainers, and clinicians. Curriculum and InstructionCurriculum and Instructio

Widening the scope of virtual reality and augmented reality in dermatology

Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are making headlines, pushing the boundaries of educational experiences and applicability in a variety of fields. Medicine has seen a rapid growth of utilization of these devices for various educational and practical purposes. With respect to the field of dermatology, very few uses are discussed in the literature. We briefly present the current status of VR/AR with regard to this specialty

Virtual reality: applications in medicine and psychiatry.

Virtual reality (VR) is a coined description of a new computer-based technology that allows the user to enter a 3-D artificial world. Inside this world, the user can look around, move around and interact within computer worlds. The user can fly, visit exotic lands, play with molecules, "enter" cardiac chambers and watch blood swirl or do simulated surgery. The possibilities are staggering and it is important that physicians become literate in this visual experience. In this article I will introduce the technology in the field, discuss some medical applications already in use, and speculate on some potential uses in my field of interest: psychiatry

Development of a dynamic virtual reality model of the inner ear sensory system as a learning and demonstrating tool

In order to keep track of the position and motion of our body in space, nature has given us a fascinating and very ingenious organ, the inner ear. Each inner ear includes five biological sensors - three angular and two linear accelerometers - which provide the body with the ability to sense angular and linear motion of the head with respect to inertial space. The aim of this paper is to present a dynamic virtual reality model of these sensors. This model, implemented in Matlab/Simulink, simulates the rotary chair testing which is one of the tests carried out during a diagnosis of the vestibular system. High-quality 3D-animations linked to the Simulink model are created using the export of CAD models into Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) files. This virtual environment shows not only the test but also the state of each sensor (excited or inhibited) in real time. Virtual reality is used as a tool of integrated learning of the dynamic behavior of the inner ear using ergonomic paradigm of user interactivity (zoom, rotation, mouse interaction,…). It can be used as a learning and demonstrating tool either in the medicine field - to understand the behavior of the sensors during any kind of motion - or in the aeronautical field to relate the inner ear functioning to some sensory illusions

Virtual Reality in Medicine

Posljednjih nekoliko godina svjedočimo porastu komercijalno dostupnih sustava virtualne stvarno- sti koji su na visokoj razini iskoristivosti kako za profesionalnu tako i za kućnu upotrebu. Od ranih primjeraka sustava virtualne stvarnosti u medicini koji su korišteni kao izuzetno sofisticirani, skupi i zahtjevni za upotrebu, došli smo do trenutka u kojemu su i cijena i jednostavnost upotrebe na tako visokoj razini da se koriste čak i kao terapija u domu. Cilj ovog rada bio je istražiti dosadašnja istraživanja koja su se bavila upotrebom virtualne stvarnosti u nekoliko izabranih medicinskih pod- ručja: psihijatriji, rehabilitacijskoj terapiji, medicinskoj izobrazbi i kontroli boli. Ovaj rad prikazuje različita područja medicine gdje je virtualna stvarnost već afirmirani alat te ona područja gdje je tek na početku profiliranja kao neizostavni alat u medicini. Smatramo kako sustavi virtualne stvarnosti imaju visoku razinu uvjerljivosti što omogućava medicinskom osoblju poboljšavanje vlastitih vještina i iskustava bez štete po bolesnika, dok bolesniku omogućuje prilagođenu i bolju njegu i liječenje.For the last few years, we have been witnessing a surge of commercially available virtual reality systems that are on a high grade of usability for both professional and home-based application. Early examples of virtual reality systems used in the medical field were highly sophisticated, expensive and hard to use devices. Now we have reached a point where both prices and ease of use are at a level that it can be easily applied even as a home therapy system. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the use of virtual reality in selected practical medical fields: psychotherapy, rehabilitation therapy, medical training, and pain management. This review demonstrates different fields of medicine where virtual reality is already an established tool and medical fields where it has just started to become an indispensable tool for a modern-day medical practitioner. We find virtual reality systems to be powerful immersive tools that allow both practitioners to improve their skills and experiences without any damage to the patients and patients to receive better and more personalised care and treatment

Virtual Reality in Medicine

Posljednjih nekoliko godina svjedočimo porastu komercijalno dostupnih sustava virtualne stvarno- sti koji su na visokoj razini iskoristivosti kako za profesionalnu tako i za kućnu upotrebu. Od ranih primjeraka sustava virtualne stvarnosti u medicini koji su korišteni kao izuzetno sofisticirani, skupi i zahtjevni za upotrebu, došli smo do trenutka u kojemu su i cijena i jednostavnost upotrebe na tako visokoj razini da se koriste čak i kao terapija u domu. Cilj ovog rada bio je istražiti dosadašnja istraživanja koja su se bavila upotrebom virtualne stvarnosti u nekoliko izabranih medicinskih pod- ručja: psihijatriji, rehabilitacijskoj terapiji, medicinskoj izobrazbi i kontroli boli. Ovaj rad prikazuje različita područja medicine gdje je virtualna stvarnost već afirmirani alat te ona područja gdje je tek na početku profiliranja kao neizostavni alat u medicini. Smatramo kako sustavi virtualne stvarnosti imaju visoku razinu uvjerljivosti što omogućava medicinskom osoblju poboljšavanje vlastitih vještina i iskustava bez štete po bolesnika, dok bolesniku omogućuje prilagođenu i bolju njegu i liječenje.For the last few years, we have been witnessing a surge of commercially available virtual reality systems that are on a high grade of usability for both professional and home-based application. Early examples of virtual reality systems used in the medical field were highly sophisticated, expensive and hard to use devices. Now we have reached a point where both prices and ease of use are at a level that it can be easily applied even as a home therapy system. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the use of virtual reality in selected practical medical fields: psychotherapy, rehabilitation therapy, medical training, and pain management. This review demonstrates different fields of medicine where virtual reality is already an established tool and medical fields where it has just started to become an indispensable tool for a modern-day medical practitioner. We find virtual reality systems to be powerful immersive tools that allow both practitioners to improve their skills and experiences without any damage to the patients and patients to receive better and more personalised care and treatment

Virtual reality

Virtual reality is still in its infancy. However, many contemporary applications already have proven virtual reality to be indispensable to everyday life. For instance, the technology of virtual product design and manufacturing makes the new products better and cheaper. The applications of VR in medicine allow doctors to diagnose a disease more accurately. Without a doubt, it has and will foster more innovative research and applications. High-resolution, low-lag and low-price systems will be the focus of future virtual reality research. The technology has been infiltrated into many application fields, involving training, medical, engineering; space exploring and communication.published_or_final_versio

Reality Check

There is much to discover when it comes to the development, process, and uses for augmented and virtual reality. This research analyzes a similar augmented reality device to a fictional counterpart called Augma. The investigation proceeds to examine the problems and challenges of augmented reality. Findings go in depth on the critical uses for virtual reality: medicine, games, empathy and fulfilling dreams. However, just like every other invention, there are challenges concerning the development of full-dive virtual reality. This project investigates how some experiments could be used to complete full-dive reality. ❏ Empathy is the ability to understand others and the use of virtual reality helps people come closer to understand one another. ❏ Virtual and augmented reality has helped in the medical field by providing doctors the opportunity to practice on a digital being instead of a mannequin. ❏ Full-Dive VR is a highly developed piece of technology that can transport a person to another realm