VR technologies in medicine and healthcare

Today, extended reality technologies are helping medicine specialists in profile education and health treatment. Immersive technologies it's not only entertainment. Their target is improving productivity, training, creativity and fix less of experience.

The markets for healthcare and modern medicine are always the most developing and full of investments. The advent of augmented reality innovation gives these markets an impactful boost.

According to the data of Accenture research on average, 21% of work time could potentially be augmented by the use of XR, in healthcare is rising to more than 35%. A true assessment, we recently also indicated how effectively can increase productivity in sports using AR and VR.

So, it would be great to discuss the top products of VR/AR for healthcare.

One in three people who experience an extremely traumatic event — anything from a car accident to a natural disaster to a violent mugging — will suffer from PTSD. The symptoms are often persistent and life-wrecking: nightmares, insomnia, and feelings of isolation, irritability, and guilt.

Most people associate virtual reality with gaming, but what if its immersive worlds could be used as therapy? What if virtual reality could help veterans with PTSD? At the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies, clinical psychologist Dr. Albert "Skip" Rizzo and his medical V.R. research team are working on just that. With the help of state-of-the-art processors and lightning-fast computers, they're giving veterans a chance to confront their past and heal.

Limbix is actively researching and productizing therapies for a new therapeutic class: Prescription Digital Therapeutics. PDTs require strict compliance with FDA quality management standards, are put through rigorous research trials, and in certain cases can be paired with existing pharmacological treatments. Upon FDA approval, PDTs support medical claims and can be prescribed similarly to traditional drugs.

Skip Rizzo, Ph.D., mentioned above, is also one of the consultants for the Limbix team.

Their current directions are aimed at:

• Adolescent Depression;
  
• Major Depressive Disorder;
  
• Social Anxiety;
  
• Panic Disorder;
  
• Chronic Pain
  
• Adolescent Social Anxiety;
  
• Alcohol Use Disorder;
  

Online training for Nurse and EMS - VR Patients

A lot of scenarios for nurses like a inoculation, artificial respiration for the First Aid & Emergencies. One of the best practical training for healthcare practitioners. VR patients in this project is a cost-effective means of offering unlimited training and assessment by realistically simulating actual procedures and experiences.

Founded in 2018, a global platform for mental deceleration in VR. Their products offer a unique combination of elaborately produced 360-degree environments in 3D, uplifting music, modern virtual reality technology and fantastic virtual worlds for VR headsets.

Over the past year, Martin and Giorgio Koppehele were able to implement 22 experiences in their platform. At this stage, the product is available only in the B2B segment for use in aircraft, train stations, airports and for stress therapy of employees of large companies. However, Magic Horizons also plans to create a client for B2C, but there is no exact date information.

What these guys do is quite impressive. The user in any free time is able to enjoy the sound of the surf or the sounds of nature while sitting in a simple chair.

In another scenario, you listen to Delta, Theta, Alpha waves and meditate in Binaural Beats. Such procedures revitalize and stimulate creativity.

In the third area, there are scenarios developed specifically for this purpose. Two controllers are used to offer a particularly intensive yet relaxing immersive experience. You can thus playfully experience a relaxing flow state in a Crystal Cave with leaves, flowers, butterflies or light particles, or roam through a Zen Garden and draw patterns in the sand with a virtual rake. The Number Training interactive experience offers a playful exercise with numbers.

Even a few regular breaks with a VR headset and the innovative content by Magic Horizons are enough to promote mental regeneration and to relax the user within a short time. The holistic approach with modern VR technology and unique, touching content far exceeds the possibilities of conventional relaxation CDs and smartphone meditation apps. VR applications are perfect for people in all walks of life who are exposed to great psychological stress and wish to achieve maximum concentration and mental fitness. Renowned partners in the fields of air, sea, and bus travel, telecommunications, technology, and entertainment retail and corporate health management are already using the VR applications by Magic Horizons GmbH as pilots and for their customers. At the same time, the VR content offers exciting activities and therapeutic approaches for burnout patients, senior citizens, people with limited mobility, and people in long-term care. The high entertainment factor with active and passive interactive elements and the simple operation of Magic Horizons offer relaxation experiences for a global target group and people of any age.

There is a lot of Augmented and Virtual reality apps for learning anatomy, body structure or life processes.

For example, the heart is a complicated three-dimensional organ, and it's really hard to describe what's going on inside of it — especially when something is going wrong. Virtual reality eliminates a lot of that complexity by letting people go inside the heart and see what's happening themselves — it's worth way more than a thousand words.

These are just a few of the many cutting-edge examples in the use of immersive technologies in medical education. VR and AR help doctors, nurses, and students build mastery through real-life scenarios, share knowledge, prepare to solve problems, and save lives.