Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
the department had implemented a relaxation VR program in its waiting room
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More on virtual reality and mindfulness in this blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=Virtual+reality+mindfulness
Virtual Reality (VR) training tools are here to help, ensuring that healthcare professionals can be trained remotely, immersively, and more thoroughly than traditional methods for both front-line medicine and in specialist procedures.
use of wearable contact tracing sensors or VR training tools in the education sector and in an high-pressure medical context
Their VR platform uses personalized prediction software and “gamification and varied content formats to engage users and embed knowledge”, and has been used to “deliver typically labor-intensive training quickly and at scale”
“VR enables medics to immerse themselves in these infrequent scenarios, and can reduce skill fade by 52% and improve learning retention rates by up to 75% (compared to 10% for traditional methods),”
Simulated virtual learning can also ease the psychological burden of notoriously intensive medical training and place more emphasis on wellbeing.
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more on mindfulness in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mindfulness
Medical students and junior doctors are increasingly learning to practise medicine in VR
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2021/03/10/journal-of-applied-instructional-design-jaid/
While COVID is driving clinical learning to VR, the teaching of human anatomy — which typically takes place in the early years of a medical degree — has already shifted to virtual reality in some universities. Case Western Reserve University’s medical school, for example, had been teaching anatomy on campus through content on Microsoft Hololens, rather than by dissecting cadavers as many universities do. Now, with students unable to come onto campus, the university has shipped headsets to students at home so they can continue learning at home.
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more on immersive in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=immersive
A virtual reality (VR) medical training system built by Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS) is now being offered for free during the COVID-19 pandemic to help hospitals and medical schools bring in badly-needed additional staffers to provide patient care.
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more on VR and Nursing in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=VR+nursing
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/facebook-metaverse-name-change/620449/
In the simplest explanation, the metaverse is just a sexy, aspirational name for some kind of virtual or augmented-reality play. Facebook owns a company called Oculus, which manufactures and sells VR computers and headsets. Oculus is also making a 3-D, virtual platform called Horizon—think Minecraft with avatars, but without the blocks. Facebook, Apple, and others have also invested heavily in augmented reality, a kind of computer graphics that uses goggles to overlay interactive elements onto a live view of the world. So far, the most viable applications of VR and AR can be found in medicine, architecture, and manufacturing, but dreams of its widespread consumer appeal persist. If those dreams become realized, you’ll probably end up buying crap and yelling at people through a head-mounted display, instead of through your smartphone.
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more on the metaverse in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=metaverse
“Using #augmentedreality (#AR) and #blockchain technologies, the game featured ‘Vatoms’, virtual objects that players can interact with.
Due to pandemic restrictions, the game, originally developed as an outdoor activity in other markets, was adapted to allow people to hunt for the packs in and around their own homes. Packs contained either Playstation symbol chips or an instant-win prize, which would then be stored in a digital wallet.”
Imagine, if it was not Doritos, but bones to build a skeletal system (Biology, nursing, medicine, etc.), philosophers (Philosophy, political science, social sciences) and the rewards or badges in the leaderboard. #gaming and #gamification
Read more at: https://www.campaignasia.com/article/why-11-million-filipinos-went-hunting-for-virtual-doritos/470820
The technology used in these VR applications tricks the brain into believing in another reality. For example, a patient on a hospital bed is virtually transported to an altered reality where the patient can enjoy an immersive experience of hiking in Machu Picchu or snorkelling under the Pacific Ocean or watching a serene sunset while sipping coconut water on a white sand beach. Called as VR distraction therapy, such virtual experience causes the brain to escape the present reality leading to less pain and anxiety.
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Healing the Brain and Body From Trauma Often Goes Beyond Talk Therapy—Here’s Why
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more on immersive and medical in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=virtual+reality+medicine
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11423-021-10003-w
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more in VR in the medical fields
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=virtual+reality+medicine
https://www.foxla.com/news/virtual-reality-goggles-for-medical-healing
by tricking the brain with audio and imagery, it can and will believe your new environment. It’s about hijacking the senses of the brain.
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more on VR and medicine in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=virtual+reality+medicine