Metaverse for Healthcare: A Survey on Potential Applications, Challenges and Future Directions

Metaverse for Healthcare: A Survey on Potential Applications, Challenges and Future Directions

ABSTRACT The rapid progress in digitalization and automation have led to an accelerated growth in healthcare, generating novel models that are creating new channels for rendering treatment with reduced cost. The Metaverse is an emerging technology in the digital space which has huge potential in healthcare, enabling realistic experiences to...

Expert consensus on the metaverse in medicine

1. Introduction Since 2021, the concept of the metaverse has been widely discussed. It refers to the internet accessed via virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) glasses, and is considered to be the next-generation mobile computing platform that will be widely used in the future.1 Others believe that the metaverse is...