A Social VR Clinic for Knee Arthritis Patients with Haptics

Social virtual reality (VR) invites multiple users to interact in a shared immersive environment, which can be potentially useful for remote personalized healthcare. This demo presents a social VR clinic that allows patients to consult a nurse represented as a virtual avatar. It offers a "walk-in" virtual surgery room, enables patients to interact with animated virtual 3D artifacts, and train the patient to use an injection tool wearing a pair of mechanical VR

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Dutch Research Council
Netherlands
IBM Research - China
China (People's Republic of)
Care
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Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
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STICHTING CENTRUM VOOR WISKUNDE EN INFORMATICA
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Keywords

social virtual reality, social VR, VR haptics, virtual healthcare

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