Authoring tools for virtual reality experiences: a systematic review

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed several limitations of existing healthcare systems. Thus, there is a surge in healthcare innovation and new business models using computer-mediated virtual environments to provide an alternative healthcare system. Today, digital transformation is not limited to virtual communication alone but encompasses digitalizing the network of social connections in the healthcare industry using metaverse technology. The metaverse is a universal and immersive virtual world facilitated by virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). This paper presents the first effort to offer a comprehensive survey that examines the latest metaverse developments in the healthcare industry, which covers seven domains: telemedicine, clinical care, education, mental health, physical fitness, veterinary, and pharmaceuticals. We review metaverse applications and deeply discuss technical issues and available solutions in each domain that can help develop a self-sustaining, persistent, and future-proof solution for medical healthcare systems. Finally, we highlight the challenges that must be tackled before fully embracing the metaverse for the healthcare industry.

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“…Category Challenges tion, irregular synchronization between the devices, etc., as discussed in [149]- [152].…”

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Healthcare in Metaverse: A Survey on Current Metaverse Applications in Healthcare

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“…In the past years, a variety of virtual world simulations [2] have been introduced, tailored to particular research problems, most of them presented as proof of concept. A great number of applications have been designed for entertainment/multimedia systems [3], education/training [4], [5], [6], collaboration, Cultural heritage, and medical training [4], [7].…”

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“…Some VE authoring tools [5], [4] allow reuse/import of content/assets that impacts the tool's usability and effectiveness, as it enables designers to significantly reduce their effort, and generate custom user-experience that otherwise would be impossible. In that respect, some novel, innovative, and interoperable authoring platforms allow users with non or limited programming knowledge to design a VE fast and easy [4], setting early the basic and essential requirements for the building of the metaverse [2]. In that respect, VR software design patterns method [9] is a research concept with already concrete results that will be utilized in the building process of the next-generation VR training applications for the metaverse.…”

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MAGES 4.0: Accelerating the world's transition to VR training and democratizing the authoring of the medical metaverse

Zikas¹,

Protopsaltis²,

Kamarianakis³

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In this work, we propose MAGES 4.0, a novel Software Development Kit (SDK) to accelerate the creation of collaborative medical training scenarios in VR/AR. Our solution offers a versatile authoring platform for developers to create medical simulations in a future-proof, low-code environment. MAGES breaks the boundaries between realities since students can collaborate using virtual and augmented reality devices at the same medical scene. With MAGES we provide a solution to the 150-year-old training model which is unable to meet the level of healthcare professionals needed. Our platform incorporates, among others, the following novel advancements: a) 5G edge-cloud remote rendering and physics dissection, b) realistic real-time simulation of organic tissues as soft-bodies, c) a highly realistic cutting and tearing algorithm, d) neural network assessment for user profiling and, e) a VR recorder to record and replay or resume the training simulation from any perspective.

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“…Zhang and Ley [34] introduced FlowMatic, an immersive authoring tool that allow programmers to specify behaviors that react to discrete events such as user actions, system timers, or collisions and also provides primitives to create and destroy objects, abstract and re-use functionalities, and import three-dimensional models. More recently, Coehlo et al [35] surveyed the existing literature on authoring tools for immersive content creation analyzing its features and how they are evaluated.…”

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Authoring Tools for Procedural Modeling of Virtual Reality-Based Rehabilitation Exercises

2022

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Patient compliance is one of the key factors for rehabilitation programs to be effective. To increase patients' engagement game technologies and virtual reality can be applied. However, the advantages provided by these techniques are not enough to be applied in real scenarios since experts do not always have the required technological skills. To overcome this limitation, a new virtual reality-based rehabilitation system that combines virtual reality, procedural modelling, and authoring tools, is proposed.The system provides easy-to-use editors for the experts to prepare rehabilitation exercises that will take place in an expanding and varied open virtual world created using procedural generation strategies. Patients using a virtual reality headset explore this immersive virtual scenario and solve challenges by applying actions according to their rehabilitation goals and receiving success/failure feedback. While the patient interacts with the exercises through immersive virtual reality, the expert supervises the patient's actions via a computer monitor where the exercise is displayed at the same time as in the headset. The paper presents the system and the evaluation that has been carried out to set the system configuration parameters that allow non-experts the easy creation of varied open virtual worlds for rehabilitation purposes. In addition, it collects the first impressions of rehabilitators which have been very satisfactory.

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Authoring tools for virtual reality experiences: a systematic review

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Healthcare in Metaverse: A Survey on Current Metaverse Applications in Healthcare

Healthcare in Metaverse: A Survey on Current Metaverse Applications in Healthcare

MAGES 4.0: Accelerating the world's transition to VR training and democratizing the authoring of the medical metaverse

Authoring Tools for Procedural Modeling of Virtual Reality-Based Rehabilitation Exercises

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