Metaverse and Medicine

Kovacev, Nemanja

doi:10.1109/zinc55034.2022.9840547

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“…Metaverse and Oral Health. Metaverse technology is an emerging and promising area in the healthcare sector, with applications making an appearance [16][17][18][19][20][21]. It can effectively engage and educate children about oral health through interactive digital content, such as educational games and simulations [10].…”

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A Brief Review on Engaging and Interactive Learning for Children: Exploring the Potential of Metaverse-Based Oral Health Promotion

Mehta,

Mathur,

Chaurasia

et al. 2024

International Journal of Dentistry

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The importance of oral health for overall health makes it critical to establish proper oral hygiene practices in children early on. The traditional approaches to teaching children about dental health may not be successful since they may not be able to keep their interest. Metaverse technology offers a promising alternative, allowing for the design of engaging and immersive worlds that can effectively educate children about oral health. Despite the growing interest in the use of metaverse technology in healthcare, there is a lack of comprehensive reviews on its potential for oral health promotion in children. This review aims to fill this gap by providing an overview of the current state of metaverse-based oral health promotion for children, discussing its benefits and challenges, and highlighting its potential for improving children’s oral health. By conducting this review, the authors hope to provide new information on the potential of metaverse-based oral health promotion for children and to contribute to the ongoing discussion on the use of metaverse technology in healthcare. This review may also provide valuable insights for dental organizations and practitioners interested in using metaverse technology to promote oral health and healthy living among children.

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A Brief Review on Engaging and Interactive Learning for Children: Exploring the Potential of Metaverse-Based Oral Health Promotion

Mehta,

Mathur,

Chaurasia

et al. 2024

International Journal of Dentistry

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“…The early research following the launch of the Metaverse in 2021 has tended to largely focus on the state-of-the-art in the development and implementation of this global platform and the concerns and conundrums it poses as to its future realization and deployment. In this respect, topical and review studies (e.g., [3,[36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45]) have addressed a broad set of topics related to data-driven technologies, immersive technologies, visualization and graphics, applications, opportunities, benefits, research agenda, and roadmapping, as well as challenges, risks, bottlenecks, and contentions. These topics pertain primarily to the early stages of the design and engineering of the Metaverse along with the critical understanding of what this platform raises and entails in terms of pitfalls and ramifications in the medium and long term.…”

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“…Overall, potential applications of the Metaverse as a virtual form of MIoT in the medical domain are said to be huge. Kovacev [41] addresses a number of questions in this regard, involving the current status of the Metaverse-based MIoT technology, the means of its integration in medicine, the challenges of its integration with medical platforms and other technologies, and the potential risks of this technology. The author further raises the question of whether the failure and inefficiency of the different attempts made to revolutionize or disrupt healthcare will happen with the Metaverse.…”

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The Metaverse as a Virtual Model of Platform Urbanism: Its Converging AIoT, XReality, Neurotech, and Nanobiotech and Their Applications, Challenges, and Risks

Bibri

2023

Smart Cities

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With their exponentially rising computational power, digital platforms are heralding a new era of hybrid intelligence. There has recently been much enthusiasm and hype that the Metaverse has the potential to unlock hybrid intelligence. This is premised on the idea that the Metaverse represents an applied convergence of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) and Extended Reality (XR) that intersects with urbanism in terms of the distinctive features of platform-mediated everyday life experiences in cities. However, social interaction and its resulting social organization in the Metaverse are mediated and governed by algorithms and thus submitted to—a dream of—complete logical ordering. This raises a plethora of concerns related to the systemic collection and algorithmic processing of users’ personal, brain, and biometric data, i.e., profound societal—and the hardest to predict ethical—implications. Therefore, this study analyzes and synthesizes a large body of scientific literature on the unfolding convergence of AIoT and XR technologies, neurotechnology, and nanobiotechnology in the realm of the Metaverse in order to derive a novel conceptual framework for the Metaverse as an envisioned virtual model of platform urbanism. Further, it examines the key challenges and risks of these converging technologies in relation to the Metaverse and beyond. This study employs thematic analysis and synthesis to cope with multidisciplinary literature. The analysis identifies seven themes: (1) Platformization, (2) platform urbanism, (3) virtual urbanism, (4) XR technologies, (5) AIoT technologies, (6) neurotechnology, and (7) nanobiotechnology. The synthesized evidence reveals that, while neurotechnology and nanobiotechnology have numerous benefits and promising prospects, they raise contentions and controversies stemming from their potential use to inflict harm to human users—if left unchecked—through the black box of the algorithmic mediation underpinning the Metaverse. The findings serve to steer the Metaverse to contribute to human flourishing and wellbeing by adhering to and upholding ethical principles as well as leveraging its underlying disruptive technologies in meaningful ways. They also aid scholars, practitioners, and policymakers in assessing the pros and cons of these technologies, especially their inevitable ramifications.

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“…Applications of metaverse services have been initiated and has become an increasingly promising and significant area of the healthcare industry [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ]. Therefore, it is important that the healthcare industry be aware of the values and commitment to metaverse services as an essential aspect of strategic planning for the long-term vision in the healthcare industry.…”

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Application of Metaverse Service to Healthcare Industry: A Strategic Perspective

Lee

2022

IJERPH

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This study is to explore a state of the art in metaverse service that is an emerging issue in applying it to the healthcare industry. The purpose of this study is to provide applicable strategic scenarios for effective metaverse service planning and implementation in healthcare settings. This study is focused on metaverse service as a business model. Thus, related literatures of metaverse service are reviewed in various aspects in healthcare industry. An exploratory approach is used to analyze current qualitative data characterizing healthcare metaverse service business positions and derive applicable strategies from business trends of current metaverse services. Several cases are examined based on the data obtained from various sources of healthcare and other related industries. This study synthesizes finding results and suggests applicable strategies of metaverse service in the healthcare industry. This study will facilitate strategic decision-making and policy-making processes to pursue a business opportunity development through an application of a metaverse service in healthcare and similar settings.

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Metaverse and Medicine

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A Brief Review on Engaging and Interactive Learning for Children: Exploring the Potential of Metaverse-Based Oral Health Promotion

A Brief Review on Engaging and Interactive Learning for Children: Exploring the Potential of Metaverse-Based Oral Health Promotion

The Metaverse as a Virtual Model of Platform Urbanism: Its Converging AIoT, XReality, Neurotech, and Nanobiotech and Their Applications, Challenges, and Risks

Application of Metaverse Service to Healthcare Industry: A Strategic Perspective

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