TECH OUTLOOKDec 2019 - Jan 20209the "Digi Phobie" project from the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT which helps to fight the fear of spiders or the Brave mind VR Exposure Therapy software (University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies) which is used to treat post traumatic stress disorder of soldiers. To summarize, every time a fear exist, XR helps to overtake it by a controlled immersion. This is a real revolution!There are many more uses of XR in healthcare domain, from communication to devices maintenance or for laboratory design like for my own company HCS Pharma. Even research can be improved by XR. This example from Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research is a perfect illustration. And now, everything is perfect under the Sun?With many useful uses, real benefits for patients and professional, amazing exponential development (a CAGR from +10% to +50% is described in market research for the period 2019-2026!) it sounds like paradise, but we need to keep calm as there are some constraints to deal with. Firstly, people need to be educated to use XR, especially for healthcare professionals. Health and surgery are scientific domains where validated processes are important or even mandatory. As we have seen, XR needs much more scientific studies to prove positive effects. These studies will be used to change process and we will see more and more of such technologies used in health formation. Of course, to create XR contents for health, we need skilled people, but that's another story.Secondly, when we talk about health and personal health data, we have to talk about security and privacy (well, not only in health). It was a major discussion subject in the last health session of Laval Virtual. Technically, most of health XR applications (for training or treatment) could be developed on major VR and AR tools, like VR chat, Amazon Sumerian, Altspace VR or Facebook platform. It would be faster! But today, who could trust them to keep personal data safe and secured? So, sometime we feel like everything needs to be reinvented again and again and it's then impossible to lower the cost and spread utilizations as largely as possible. The next (and mandatory) revolution in XR will be the data security revolution. We don't know how it will be done but it will probably come from open "AR clouds" developments. These tools will allow us to "talk" the same XR language (aka use standard description of experiences) but, in the same time, we will keep our data in protected areas. If you want to know more about it, you should look at the Open AR cloud Project. I'm certain that this is the XR future revolution. There are many more uses of XR in healthcare domain, from communication to devices maintenance or for laboratory design like for my own company HCS Pharma. Even research can be improved by XR.
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