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Five Ways Oculus Rift Can Be Used in Healthcare


If you are familiar with technology gadgets, Oculus Rift can sound like an interesting option for healthcare, but for people who ignore what all the talk is about this virtual reality device, the sole mention of such a possibility could not make sense at all. So, let us start by introducing you to Oculus Rift unless you know about it already. This device is a head-mounted display that is meant to provide gamers with a more lively experience by showing realistic 3D images and virtual reality imagery. Physically similar to other gaming-oriented visors already for sale in the market, Oculus Rift is top-notch technology, which is going to be one of a kind VR headset coming to the market during the first quarter of 2016.

However, Oculus Rift is more than just a gaming accessory; the hype around this device includes the many possible applications that it may have in different fields, not just for the gaming industry, but including its use in digital healthcare. Indeed, this innovative VR headset might be used with advantages in the management of chronic disease and general mobile health care in an audiovisual manner. Moreover, it could be enhanced with the avatar generation, much in the way we have seen in online virtual reality applications since the late 20th century, but from a patient a collaborative approach in which avatars can be generated based on patients' own health data facts, collected through a mobile medical application.

Among the different ways in which Oculus Rift could contribute to healthcare, we can note these five potential alternatives:

Distant Medicine Consultation

Undoubtedly, mHealth apps are a key factor in the monitoring of a patient's activity, in which the digital data can be used at the physician's end, but lacks the virtual interactivity that the Oculus Rift can provide. With the aid of the headset, it is expected that a doctor could emulate the auscultation of a patient in a realistic way, making diagnosis more accurate.

Medicine Virtual Training

Oculus Rift can deliver more descriptive and realistic illness scenarios that medical students and healthcare providers can benefit from, using a device like this, which is going to enhance the practice they need in the exercise of the medical profession.

Remote Therapy

Sometimes a patient needs home therapy, particularly when his/her condition does not allow moving away. Oculus Rift can serve in therapy and rehabilitation the same to patients that suffered amputations as to others who lost mobility after a stroke.

Surgery Simulation

Medical students or graduate doctors will surely find Oculus Rift useful   to recreate a virtual surgery scenario before proceeding to real surgery procedures more efficiently.

Autism, Mental health, and Psychology

Certain conditions resulting from the brain's activity could be studied with the aid of Oculus Rift, providing a better understanding of the brain process through the virtual recreation diseases, contributing to finding the mechanisms to control them.

Concluding, the Oculus Rift is the most long-time and awaited device in the history of virtual reality games but waited with impatience by the medical industry for its potential contribution to science.
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