The Importance Of Virtual Reality In Medicine

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“We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world.”
– Bill Gates, the Road Ahead In the twentieth-century starts one of the greatest innovations made by mankind known as Virtual Reality. Dowling (2012) mentioned that it is indeed a new means controlling data by using a sensor that picks up gestures and body positions as well as receive voice commands and facial expressions. This new type of modern technology is known for its omnipotence according to what specific function it will do just like how the practice of medicinal technology emerges from virtual reality itself. This study provides an objective of knowing whether
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It is a lot easier to gather data represented as a cognitive process through the use of visual representation. Compared to a manual cross-dissection of multiple topics just to uncover a certain behavioral disorder and other known phenomenon, a virtual reality based data acquisition is a lot effective and important.
How Can Virtual Reality Be Used In the Field of Medicine? Virtual reality is used in medical and dentistry as a form of a customary system according to a virtual reality blog (2009). Most use of this technology is focused on cognitive usage for rehabilitation, phobia therapy, and simulation of medicine that will incur preventative effects on the consumer. More usage of virtual reality is attempted through the process of simulating surgeries and implantation or transferring of organs. A scenario can be created using virtual reality applications for medicinal practices. Every student is required a semi-realistic surgery before actually practicing the act of surgery itself. Moreover, the programmer can specify which field the virtual reality will be used to use its omnipotence in much of the related
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Moreover, using virtual reality as a main path to the treatment means a lot of process to occur. This also makes a schematic pricing of a specific treatment based on what kind of process is needed. An example of a PTSD treatment kit cost around a whopping £5,000. Nobody can actually buy that with their own money but this type of kit is focused mainly on armies returning from parts of the world with certain provider of the said

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