One of the problems in the field of treatment is access to doctors. This issue has upset many patients and even hospitals. But imagine a way was found through which you can access a doctor around the world. Sometimes, in some heavy and difficult operations, the doctor has a desire to communicate with his colleagues, but this is not possible due to space limitations; It is not possible to gather all the doctors from around the world for an operation in the hospital . Metaverse has solved the limitation problem. During the operation, the doctor can access the medical records of the patient and other colleagues; Therefore, Metaverse can be considered a revolution for medicine. Metaverse in medicine is one of the biggest developments in the world of virtual reality .
The development of the metaverse in medicine (metamedicine) goes through four stages. In the following, we will explain each of these steps separately .
- Holographic construction
The first step is to build a geometric model of the entire virtual world such as hospitals, medical equipment and other things needed in medical sciences. We can divide these into three categories: events, scenes, and people. For example, the operating room, the interior environment of the hospital and medical equipment are included in the scene category. Patients and medical staff are in the category of people. Data and information that are created between patients or between a patient and a doctor are also events .
- Holographic simulation
A dynamic meta-medical process will be built to bring the virtual world closer to the real world in more detail. Along with the development of technology, it should be detailed enough to create the same as the real world and depict all the physical processes. On the other hand, this world will be related to information systems and medical data such as PACS systems. With the help of real-time and interactive information, sensor devices provide visual feedback on data from digital avatars of patients and doctors .
- Fusion of virtual and real
With the continuous advancement of computer simulation technology, digital technology makes the world of virtual medicine more realistic. Therefore, in the construction of a medical mixed reality (MR) world , the boundary between the virtual world and reality will be broken. For example, in an outpatient procedure or treatment, a physician can communicate with a patient using an XR device. Through the identification, tracking and interaction of information in real time, information and data related to the patient are retrieved and superimposed as a reality and form a new relationship with the real environment .
- Virtual- real linkage
Many new medical methods, types of medical equipment and facilities will be created with the further development of computer simulation technology, brain-computer interfaces (BCI) , artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies. Changes in medical processes in the real world will follow the development of technology. Through changes, medical interventions in these two real and virtual worlds will gradually establish a closer relationship and finally bring new concepts and methods in the metaverse era in medicine. The world of metamedicine will help complement and improve medical processes in the real world. In this world, we can observe the physical space through information and also change the information of the real world .
Metaverse and medical courses
The most important advantage of Metaverse is that it allows people to interact with each other while taking practical online medical courses, as opposed to the current one-way training. Healthcare uses it in medical education for simulation training rather than knowledge dissemination. For example, advanced manual skills and interactions require additional technology in metaverse-based medical education to be more successful.
For example, surgery requires not only an understanding of the metaverse, but also the use of tools that require skillful grasping abilities. This requires the use of appropriate hardware or tracking technologies. Metaverse technology should be individually more flexible and adaptable.
Because Metaverse programs are still in the experimental stage, they will not be easy to validate (determine whether a system regularly produces results that meet predetermined criteria and record this). Instead of limiting access to the metaverse, it should be expanded.
More use of virtual reality in medical education
A growing number of doctors and specialists are using virtual reality to train other doctors and medical staff. You can use virtual reality to mimic operations performed in the real world. It is possible to view the details of each interaction on the desktop screen. Internet of Things networks, DLT , 6 G or even 10 G , robots, PC interfaces, artificial intelligence, cloud, edge and quantum computing all in the development of VR , AR and MR systems that are in medical diagnosis, treatment and prevention.